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plenitude
[plen-i-tood, -tyood] 
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plenitude
[plen-i-tood, -tyood]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenteousness, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth |
| Notes: | plenitude is indicated when the amount in question is of something abstract, whereas concrete amounts motivate the use of 'plenty' (both from Latin plenus 'full') |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, adequacy, ample supply, ampleness, competence, plenitude, right amount, sufficiency, sufficient |
| Antonyms: | inadequacy, insufficiency |
| Main Entry: | entirety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wholeness, whole |
| Synonyms: | absoluteness, aggregate, all, allness, collectiveness, collectivity, completeness, complex, comprehensiveness, ensemble, entireness, everything, fullness, gross, intactness, integrality, integrity, omneity, omnitude, oneness, perfection, plenitude, sum, sum total, the works, total, totality, undividedness, unity, universality, whole ball of wax, whole bit, whole enchilada, whole nine yards |
| Antonyms: | fraction, incompleteness, part, partiality, section |
| Main Entry: | exuberance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profusion |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, copiousness, effusiveness, exaggeration, excessiveness, fulsomeness, lavishness, lushness, luxuriance, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, richness, superabundance, superfluity, teemingness |
| Antonyms: | insufficiency, lack, need, want |
| Main Entry: | fullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance, breadth |
| Synonyms: | adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiation, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
| Antonyms: | emptiness, incompleteness, need, void, want |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance |
| Synonyms: | excess, nimiety, oversupply, plenitude, saturation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, too much* |
| Antonyms: | insufficiency, lack, need, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | quantity, often large |
| Synonyms: | abundance, aggregate, aggregation, amplitude, assortment, barrel, batch, body, bunch, bundle, circle, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, conglomerate, conglomeration, consignment, crowd, great deal, group, heap, load, mass, mess*, much, multiplicity, number, ocean, oodles, order, pack, pile, plenitude, plenty, push, reams, requisition, scores, set, stack, stacks |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, commonalty, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, great number, heap, herd, horde, host, infinitude, infinity, jam*, legion, loads, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, numbers, ocean*, oodles*, people, plenitude, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, scores, sea, slew, swarm, throng, turnout |
| Antonyms: | handful, portion, single, zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aggregate, bunch |
| Synonyms: | abundance, amount, caboodle, collection, company, conglomeration, crowd, estimate, flock, horde, jillion, lot, manifoldness, many, multitude, plenitude, plenty, product, quantity, slew, sum, throng, total, totality, umpteen, volume, whole, zillion |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money numerals are symbols; numbers are the things that numerals symbolize |
| Antonyms: | one |
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