PROFUSENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profuseness mean? 

• PROFUSENESS (noun)
  The noun PROFUSENESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being extremely abundant

  Familiarity information: PROFUSENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFUSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being extremely abundant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness

Context example:

the idiomatic richness of English

Hypernyms ("profuseness" is a kind of...):

abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profuseness"):

overgrowth (a profusion of growth on or over something else)

greenness; verdancy; verdure (the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation)

wilderness (a bewildering profusion)

Derivation:

profuse (produced or growing in extreme abundance)