luxuriantness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

luxuriant +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

luxuriantness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being luxuriant.
    • 1882, Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours, page 378:
      He had depleted himself, and yet his love grew daily, and reveled in the luxuriantness of having given all today and finding still that it had all to give again to-morrow.
    • 1960, Hymenoptera reprints: Bradley collection, page 25:
      The garden by May 5 had increased in size and luxuriantness as a result of the farine used.
    • 2018, Daniel C. Taylor, Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
      They have a different luxuriantness.

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