profusion
Americannoun
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abundance; abundant quantity.
- Synonyms:
- bounty, copiousness
- Antonyms:
- scarcity
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a great quantity or amount (often followed byof ).
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lavish spending; extravagance.
- Synonyms:
- waste, excess, profligacy, prodigality
Related Words
See plenty.
Etymology
Origin of profusion
First recorded in 1535–45; rom Latin profūsiōn- (stem of profūsiō ) “a pouring out, extravagance,” originally, “libation”; profuse, fusion
Example Sentences
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Plath and Swift, Nelson argues, have been judged by “the same script that has greeted female profusion, personalism, and ambition literally for millennia.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
No background study is necessary to join the membership of Mr. Berry’s readers, though the profusion of titles might seem overwhelming.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
He certainly is not advocating violent demonstrations but even a profusion of peaceful protests elsewhere would still require an increase in public-order policing.
From BBC • Aug. 19, 2025
There’s also evidence that the profusion of bodies and nightmarish scenes that characterize Mitchell’s later work started to creep in before he went to Vietnam.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
They bristled from the side of the dig in a profusion that reminded me of the Beni mounds, hundreds of miles upstream.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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