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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As the profusion of large language models and other tools has picked up, demand for inference computing has skyrocketed, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said in a joint interview with Su.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 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
And the sharks — who do not seem particularly interested in the humans, as there is no lack of familiar lunch options — do sometimes arrive in great, unsettling profusion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 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
Sweet beets were grown in profusion hereabouts, and were served with almost every meal.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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