Profusion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Profusion \Pro*fu"sion\, n. [L. profusio: cf. F. profusion.]
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     1. The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out
        without sting.
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              Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles? --Rowe.
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     2. Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a
        profusion of commodities. --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  profusion
       n : the property of being extremely abundant [syn: {profuseness},
            {richness}, {cornucopia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  158 Moby Thesaurus words for "profusion":
     abundance, accumulation, acres, affluence, agglomeration,
     ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bags, barrels,
     bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bounty, bumper crop, bushel,
     carpe diem, cloud of words, conglomeration,
     conspicuous consumption, copiousness, countlessness, diffuseness,
     diffusion, diffusiveness, dissipation, effusion, effusiveness,
     extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow,
     fluency, foison, formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity,
     generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing,
     heap, hoard, host, incontinence, infinitude, innumerability,
     intemperance, landslide, lavishness, leaking purse, liberality,
     liberalness, load, logorrhea, loose purse strings, lot, lots,
     luxuriance, macrology, manyness, mass, maximum, mess,
     more than enough, mountain, much, multifariousness, multifoldness,
     multiplicity, multitude, multitudinousness, myriad, myriads,
     nimiety, number, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opulence, opulency,
     outpour, outpouring, overflow, overgenerosity, overgenerousness,
     overliberality, oversupply, palilogy, peck, pile, plenitude,
     plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, plethora,
     pound-foolishness, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness,
     productivity, profligacy, profuseness, prolificacy, prolificity,
     quantities, quantity, rampancy, rankness, reckless expenditure,
     reckless spending, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness,
     repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion,
     rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rifeness, riot, riotousness,
     scads, sea, shower, spate, squandering, squandermania, stack,
     stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance,
     superfluity, superflux, surfeit, surplus, swarmingness,
     talkativeness, tautology, teemingness, tirade, tons, volume, waste,
     wastefulness, wealth, world, worlds