plenitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a state of fullness, completeness, or being fully developed

   The work reaches its emotional plenitude in the final movement.

2. 2
   noun

   an abundant or more than sufficient quantity

   The orchard produced a plenitude of fruit after the wet spring.

From Middle English plenitude through Anglo-Norman and French from Latin plenitudo, 'fullness,' based on plenus, 'full.' English preserves both the abstract sense of completeness and the quantitative sense of abundance.

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