plenitude

[plen-i-tood, -tyood]

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noun

fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance: a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
state of being full or complete.

Origin of plenitude

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin plēnitūdō. See plenum, -i-, tude

Related formso·ver·plen·i·tude, noun

Can be confusedplanetary plenary plentiful plenitude

Synonyms for plenitude

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1. profusion, quantity.

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Related Words for plenitude

profusion, plethora, mine, copiousness, prosperity, capacity, wealth, lots, masses, flood, enough, luxury, sufficiency, affluence, store, volume, fund, peck, abundance, oodles

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Contemporary Examples of plenitude

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Historical Examples of plenitude

A pretty plea to a beloved object in the plenitude of her power!
Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9)
Samuel Richardson
He was fond of good company, and of this there was a plenitude in Dublin.
Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II)
Edmund Downey
For most, however, there was minor luxury, and a plenitude of necessities.
Final Weapon
Everett B. Cole
Those who possessed the plenitude of power were bound to employ it.
Lectures on the French Revolution
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

British Dictionary definitions for plenitude

plenitude

noun

abundance; copiousness
the condition of being full or complete

Word Origin for plenitude

C15: via Old French from Latin plēnitūdō, from plēnus full

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Word Origin and History for plenitude

early 15c., from Old French plenitude and directly from Latin plenitudinem (nominative plenitudo) "abundance, completeness, fullness," from plenus "complete, full" (see plenary).