profusion

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

profusion (plural profusions)

1. abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia

   His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.

2. lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance

Translations

abundance

• Finnish: runsaus (fi), ylenpalttisuus (fi), yltäkylläisyys (fi)
• German: Überfluss (de) m
• Irish: raidhse (ga) f
• Maori: ranea (mi)
• Romanian: profuziune (ro) f, abundență (ro) f

• Russian: изобилие (ru) (izobilije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: обиље (sh) (obilje) n
• Spanish: profusión (es) f

lavish or imprudent expenditure

• Finnish: törsäys (fi)
• Romanian: extravaganță (ro) f

• Russian: расточительность f, щедрость f

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French

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Noun

profusion f (plural profusions)

1. profusion