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abundance 音标拼音: [əb'ʌndəns] n. 大量,丰富,充裕 大量,丰富,充裕 abundance n 1: the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; " an age of abundance" [ synonym: { abundance}, { copiousness}, { teemingness}] [ ant: { scarceness}, { scarcity}] 2: ( physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present 3: ( chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth' s crust to the total mass of the earth' s crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per millionAbundance \ A* bun" dance\ ([. a]* b[ u^] n" dans), n. [ OE. ( h) abundaunce, abundance, F. abondance, L. abundantia, fr. abundare. See { Abound}.] An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. [ 1913 Webster] It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. -- Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Exuberance; plenteousness; plenty; copiousness; overflow; riches; affluence; wealth. Usage: { Abundance}, { Plenty}, { Exuberance}. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. Plenty denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, plenty of food, plenty of money, etc. Abundance express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, abundance of riches, an abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. Exuberance rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an exuberance of mirth, an exuberance of animal spirits, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 179 Moby Thesaurus words for " abundance": accumulation, acres, adequacy, affluence, amassment, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, backlog, bags, barrels, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, budget, bumper crop, bushel, cloud of words, collection, commissariat, commissary, competence, copiousness, cornucopia, countlessness, cumulation, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dump, ease, easy street, effusion, effusiveness, enough, excess, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, heap, hoard, infinitude, innumerability, inventory, landslide, larder, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, load, logorrhea, lots, lushness, luxuriance, macrology, manyness, mass, material, materials, materiel, maximum, more than enough, mountain, much, multifariousness, multifoldness, multiplicity, multitude, multitudinousness, munitions, myriad, myriads, nimiety, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overflow, oversupply, palilogy, peck, pile, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, pregnancy, prevalence, procreativeness, prodigality, productive capacity, productiveness, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prosperousness, provisionment, provisions, quantities, quantity, rampancy, rankness, rations, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repertoire, repertory, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rick, rifeness, riot, riotousness, satiety, scads, sea, shower, spate, stack, stock, stock- in- trade, stockpile, store, stores, stream, substantiality, substantialness, sufficiency, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, supplies, supply on hand, surplus, swarmingness, talkativeness, tautology, teeming womb, teemingness, thriving, tirade, tons, treasure, treasury, volume, wealth, well- being, world, worlds |
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