profusion

Noun

Meaning

The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting.

Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mass mountain plenum overstock scad sea ocean host choice quantity excess dozen abundance surplus fertility
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Antonyms

fleck atom little need economy lack
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Hypernyms

abundance copiousness teemingness

Hyponyms

overgrowth wilderness greenness verdure verdancy

Phrases with the word

a profusion a profusion of

Examples

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. André Malraux

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it. Adam Smith

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. Benjamin Disraeli

The beautiful earth is being crapped up by an excess of people-lovely as individuals, towns, and cultures, but hideous in such profusion. John Barnes

Reeling up, blood streaming down his face from under his dented helmet, Conan glared dizzily at the profusion of destruction which spread before him. From crest to crest the dead lay strewn, a red carpet that choked the valley. It was like a red sea, with each wave a straggling line of corpses. Robert E. Howard

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it. Edmund Husserl

Close letter words and terms

profused profusely profuseness profusive profusively profusiveness