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profusion

UK/pɹə(ʊ)ˈfjuːʒən/US/pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,999 of 15,258leans written

A profusion is a very great and generous abundance. A profusion of flowers, in profusion, a profusion of detail.

It nearly always takes of and is nearly always approving, since a profusion is abundance that gives pleasure rather than a glut. In profusion is the standard phrase for something growing everywhere.

Definitions of profusion

  1. 1nounprofusionA very great and generous abundance.C1

    “The market sold a profusion of fruit, spices and brightly coloured fabrics.”

profusion is an abundance.

Where it comes from

Latin profusio comes from profundere, to pour forth, from pro plus fundere, to pour.

  1. Latin

    profusio

  2. Middle French

    profusion

  3. English, today

    profusion

From Middle French profusion, from Latin profusio.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

profusion in the wild

  • The third sister, Ignirtoq, who makes lightning by striking two stones together and urinates with profusion which makes rain.

    Kadlu

  • The village was so named because of the profusion of Thuja plicata trees in its vicinity, known as the Western Red Cedar.

    Cedar, British Columbia

  • Soon there were other issues, and by the 1990s, there was a profusion of silver coins commemorating many events.

    Commemorative coins of France

  • A profusion of alternate scientific names exists for this long-known and heavily discussed group.

    Anthoathecata

  • The confusion of having a hierarchical nesting of groups that were formerly mutually exclusive has led to a profusion of names.

    Diplogasterida

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.