abundance

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1. countableuncountableA large quantity; many.First known use First attested around 1150 to 1350.

   There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.

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   Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.

   Synonyms: heap, load, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful

2. countableuncountableAn overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.First known use First attested around 1350 to 1470.

   It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.

   c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

   Synonyms: exuberance, copiousness, overflow, plenty, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude, acrasia

3. countableuncountableWealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.First known use First attested around 1350 to 1470.

   It is noteworthy that whereas socialists formerly denounced capitalism for producing poverty, the main grievance of the Frankfurt school is that it engenders abundance and satisfies a multiplicity of needs, and is thus injurious to the higher forms of culture.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 377

   Synonyms: riches, affluence, wealth, affluence, cheese, ease, fortune, substance

4. countableuncountableFrequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.First known use First attested in the late 19ᵗʰ century.
5. capitalizedoftenuncountablegovernmentA political ideology that is progressive but prioritises economic growth and infrastructure construction.First known use Coined c. 2024.

   In The Nation, Jeet Heer recently wrote that abundance “amounts to a new iteration of neoliberalism promoting deregulation and business-friendly policies.”

   2025 April 24, Ned Resnikoff, “A YIMBY Theory of Power”, in The Nation

6. countableuncountablecard gamesA bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.First known use First attested in the late 19ᵗʰ century.
7. Scotlandcountableuncountableenough, sufficiency.