abundance

[A*bun·dance]

To have an abundance of something is to have more than you need. It's often used to describe positive qualities, such as "an abundance of love."

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An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

Noun
the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"

Noun
(chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth''s crust to the total mass of the earth''s crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million

Noun
(physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present


n.
An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.


Abundance

A*bun"dance , n. [OE. (h)abudaunce, abundance, F. abundance, F. abondance, L. abundantia, fr. abundare. See Abound.] An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.
It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
Syn. -- Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. -- Abundance, Plenty, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc. Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc.

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.

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Usage Examples

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

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