PROFUSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profusion mean? 

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

1. the property of being extremely abundant

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFUSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being extremely abundant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness

Context example:

the idiomatic richness of English

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

abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

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

overgrowth (a profusion of growth on or over something else)

greenness; verdancy; verdure (the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation)

wilderness (a bewildering profusion)

 Context examples 

Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Sheep-marks there were in profusion, and at one place, some miles down, cows had left their tracks.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The furniture was in all the profusion and elegance of modern taste.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In the jungle which we traversed were numerous hard-trodden paths made by the wild beasts, and in the more marshy places we saw a profusion of strange footmarks, including many of the iguanodon.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To see Miss Mowcher standing over him, looking at his rich profusion of brown hair through a large round magnifying glass, which she took out of her pocket, was a most amazing spectacle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Such elegance and profusion!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As she opened, and saw its length, she prepared herself for a minute detail of happiness and a profusion of love and praise towards the fortunate creature who was now mistress of his fate.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend, or to save, as they found themselves inclined, from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice; that the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man’s labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former; that the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages, to make a few live plentifully.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slopbowl, the shrubbery consisted of several young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)