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amassment

/əˈmæsmənt/

amassment noun: the act of amassing.

Noun

amassment (countable and uncountable, plural amassments)

  1. The act of amassing.
    • All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune.
    • … no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the amassment of this World, or more Worlds then this one:1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13
  2. (countable) That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something).
    • Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information.
    • [Phancy, i.e. imagination, is] but an amassment of imaginary conceptions, praejudices, ungrounded opinions, and infinite Impostures;1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, page 104

amassment meaning in Tamil

amassment in Tamil

திரட்டல், குவித்தல்

Examples of amassment in a sentence

  • Even more than the Russian Bolshevik the American democrat regards wealth with suspicion, and its too eager amassment with a bilious eye.1920, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, The American Credo, New York: Knopf, page 24:
  • Empiricism, magpie amassment of cultural detail, produces an ethnographic telephone book.1995, Clifford Geertz, chapter 2, in After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist,, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...
  • [...] did he imagine he could carry his amassments with him out of the world?1893, Lew Wallace, chapter 3, in The Prince of India, or, Why Constantinople Fell, volume 1, New York: Harper, page 21:
  • We had pushed everything into the middle of the floor, and she sat in a rocker on the edge of the amassment, attending to the last year’s baby.1935, Nellie McClung, chapter 33, in Clearing in the West: My Own Story, Toronto: Thomas Allen:

Synonyms of amassment

Forms of amassment

pluralamassments

Origin of amassment

Probably from French amassement (“the act of amassing; the result of this action, objects that have been amassed or piled up”); equivalent to amass + -ment.

Questions about amassment

What does amassment mean?
Amassment means the act of amassing.
What is amassment in Tamil?
Amassment in Tamil is திரட்டல், குவித்தல். See Amassment meaning in Tamil.
How do you use amassment in a sentence?
Even more than the Russian Bolshevik the American democrat regards wealth with suspicion, and its too eager amassment with a bilious eye.
What part of speech is amassment?
Amassment is a noun.
How do you pronounce amassment?
Amassment is pronounced /əˈmæsmənt/.
What is the plural of amassment?
The plural of amassment is amassments.

Words near amassment in the dictionary

  1. amassers
  2. amasses
  3. amassest
  4. amasseth
  5. amassing
  6. amassment
  7. amassments
  8. amastatin
  9. amasthenic
  10. amastia
  11. amastigogenesis

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