Synonyms:
profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia
Meaning: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"
Usage examples
Nature had endowed me with a profusion of crisp black hair, and plenty of high spirits.
Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather."
And he forthwith drew out and exhibited a revolver, while Myerst, finding his tongue, cursed them both, heartily and with profusion.
A glance showed Alison that Marcia had placed her dresser and table close to the window and strewn them with photographs and toilet articles in lavish profusion.
Grace and spirit, originality of invention, joyous abandon, a fancy controlled by a studious mind, a profusion of quaint humor and a proper division of light and shade, combine to give the dominant note to his music.
There was only one particular in which Henry was quite decisive; because he was there impelled by his avarice, or, more properly-speaking, his rapacity, the consequence of his profusion: this measure was the entire destruction of the monasteries.
He did not have the gas turned down low in a temporarily vacated room because he would save two cents by doing so, but because he justly regarded waste as wicked. His example in this particular, in a city so given to careless and ostentatious profusion as New York, was most useful.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Altrincham, License CC BY-SA 4.0