Synonyms for profusion
prəˈfyu ʒənpro·fu·sion

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1. profusion

   Excess is more than enough of anything, and, since this in very many cases indicates a lack either of judgment or of self-control, the word is used frequently in an unfavorable sense. Careless expenditure in excess of income is extravagance; we may have also extravagance of language, professions, etc. As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others. Overplus and superabundance denote in the main a satisfactory, and superfluity an undesirable, excess; lavishness and profusion, a generous, bountiful, or amiable excess; as, a profusion of fair hair; lavishness of hospitality. Surplus is neutral, having none of the unfavorable meaning that often attaches to excess; a surplus is that which remains over after all demands are met. Redundance or redundancy refers chiefly to literary style, denoting an excess of words or matter. Excess in the moral sense is expressed by dissipation, prodigality, intemperance, etc.

   Synonyms:
   dissipation, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

   Antonyms:
   dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

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1. profusion

   Synonyms:
   copiousness, prodigality, abundance, exuberance, extravagance, multitude, mass, heap, load, flood, wealth

   Antonyms:
   scarcity, economy, poverty, parsimony, drain, dole, driblet, pittance

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1. profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopianoun

   the property of being extremely abundant

   "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"

   Synonyms:
   cornucopia, rankness, prolificacy, profuseness, impressiveness, fertility, magnificence, mellowness, affluence, grandness, horn of plenty, richness, fullness

Matched Categories

1. • Abundance

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1. profusionnoun

   Synonyms:
   lavishness, excess, prodigality, extravagance, waste

2. profusionnoun

   Synonyms:
   abundance, exuberance

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1. List of paraphrases for "profusion":

   plethora, wealth, abundance

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How to use profusion in a sentence?

1. Andre Malraux:

   The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

2. The Talmud:

   Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error.