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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap |
| Synonyms: | a lot*, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jillion, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain*, much, multiplicity, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, ream, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total*, trillion, volume, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trillion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap |
| Synonyms: | a lot*, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jillion, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain*, much, multiplicity, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, ream, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total*, volume, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsparingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generosity |
| Synonyms: | all heart, alms-giving, altruism, beneficence, benevolence, big-heartedness, bounteousness, bountifulness, bounty, charitableness, charity, free giving, freehandedness, generousness, goodness, great-heartedness, heart*, high-mindedness, hospitality, kindness, large-heartedness, largesse, lavishness, liberality, magnanimity, magnanimousness, munificence, nobleness, openhandedness, philanthropy, profusion, readiness, unselfishness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wastefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extravagance |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, extravagancy, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, waste, wildness |
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| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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a gogo, adscititious, crammed to overflowing, dangwallet, drenched, dropsical, duplicate, excessive, exorbitant, expletive, extravagant, exuberant, filled to overflowing, gorged, in excess, inordinate, lautitious, lavish, luxurious, needless, obese, on one's hands, opiparous, outré, over and above, overcharged, overflowing, overfond, overmuch, overweening, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, ready to burst, redundant, replete, running down, running over, running to waste, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, supersaturated, supervacaneous, to spare, too many, too much, turgid, uncalled for, unnecessary, woundy
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| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Lucullan, dissipated, extravagant, fullhanded, improvident, lavish, losel, nimious, overliberal, penny, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful
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| Main Entry: | generosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Plurality. |
| Category: | 2. DETERMINATE NUMBER |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
plurality; a number, a certain number; one or two, two or three; a few, several; multitude; majority.
-adjectives
plural, more than one, upwards of, some, certain; not alone.
-adverbs
et cetera, etc.
-phrases
non deficit alter.
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| Antonyms: | unity |
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| Concept: | [Absolute quantity] Quantity. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE QUANTITY |
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-nouns
quantity, magnitude; size (dimensions); amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force., [Science of quantity] mathematics, mathesis., [Logic] category, general conception, universal predicament., [Definite or finite quantity] armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle.
-verbs
quantify, measure, fix, estimate, determine, quantitate, enumerate.
-adjectives
quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few.
-adverbs
to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly, precisely.
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