abundance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply

   an age of abundance

2. 2
   noun

   A large quantity; many.

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

3. 3
   noun

   An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A political ideology that is progressive but prioritises economic growth and infrastructure construction.

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

5. 5
   noun

   (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust

6. 6
   noun

   (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present

7. 7
   noun

   Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.

8. 8
   noun

   Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.

Etymology

From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old English geniht (“abundance, plenty”).