abundance
abundance Lexical Profile
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• noun
A very large quantity of something; an overflowing fullness or supply.
"The tropical island has an abundance of fresh fruit and clean water."
The state or condition of having a copious quantity of material goods; affluence or prosperity.
"Growing up in a household of material abundance, she rarely had to worry about financial hardship."
The relative quantity or proportion in which a chemical element, isotope, or biological species naturally occurs in a given environment.
"Geologists measured the isotopic abundance of carbon in the ancient rock samples."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the 14th century from Old French abondance, from Latin abundantia ('an overflowing'), derived from ab- ('away from') and undare ('to surge in waves'), from unda ('a wave').
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