abundance

abundance
n
1. plenty, plenitude, bounty, cornucopia, horn of plenty, endless supply, Scot. scouth or skouth, Scot, and North Eng. routh; amplitude, ampleness, fullness, plenteousness, plentifulness, bountifulness, copiousness; richness, exuberance, luxuriance, lavishness; teemingness, rankness, prodigality.
2. quantity, quantities, volume, mass, fund, mine, store; lot, lots, heap, heaps, mountain, mountains, stack, stacks, pile, piles, load, loads, mess, slew, slews, whole slew, full measure, good or great deal, quite a little, Sl. scad or scads; All Inf. ton, tons, bag, bags, barrel, barrels, gob, gobs, oodles, Chiefly Brit. lashings or lashing.
3. excess, surplus, surfeit, oversupply, overflow, nimiety, superfluity; glut, plethora, overabundance, superabundance, supersaturation; riot, landslide, bonanza, flood, heap, profusion.
4. generosity, generousness, liberality, liberalism, lib-eralness, bountifulness, bounteousness, munificence.
5. affluence, wealth, wealthiness, prosperity, pros-perousness; opulence, opulency, comfort; money, riches, fortune, treasure; means, resources, wherewithal.

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