COPIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copiousness mean? 

• COPIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun COPIOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply

  Familiarity information: COPIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

abundance; copiousness; teemingness

Context example:

an age of abundance

Hypernyms ("copiousness" is a kind of...):

quantity (an adequate or large amount)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copiousness"):

amplitude; bountifulness; bounty (the property of copious abundance)

plenitude; plenteousness; plentifulness; plentitude; plenty (a full supply)

cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness (the property of being extremely abundant)

wealth (the quality of profuse abundance)

lushness; luxuriance; voluptuousness (the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses)

overabundance; overmuch; overmuchness; superabundance (a quantity that is more than what is appropriate)

Derivation:

copious (affording an abundant supply)

copious (large in number or quantity (especially of discourse))