abundance

Noun

abundance (countable and uncountable, plural abundances)

1. A large quantity; many.
   • Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
   • There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.

   Synonyms:

   heap, load, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful

2. 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.c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

   Synonyms:

   exuberance, copiousness, overflow, plenty, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude, acrasia, acrasy, excess

3. Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
   • It is noteworthy that whereas socialists formerly denounced capitalism for producing poverty, the main grievance of the Frankfurt school is that it engenders abundance and satisfies a multiplicity of needs, and is thus injurious to the higher forms of culture.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...

   Synonyms:

   riches, affluence, wealth, cheese, ease, fortune, substance, Mammon, opulence, plenty

4. Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
5. (capitalized, often, uncountable) 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.”2025 April 24, Ned Resnikoff, “A YIMBY Theory of Power”, in The Nation
6. A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
7. (Scotland) enough, sufficiency.