profuseness

profuseness: I
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Plenty]

Syn. abundance, surplus, affluence; see plenty .

2. [Verbosity]

Syn. prolixity, verbiage, grandiloquence; see wordiness .

II
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Excessive or imprudent expenditure: extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, squander, waste, wastefulness. See CAREFUL, SAVE.

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Profuseness — Pro*fuse ness, n. Extravagance; profusion. [1913 Webster] Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
profuseness — index boom (prosperity), plethora, sufficiency, surfeit, tautology Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
profuseness — profuse ► ADJECTIVE 1) plentiful; abundant. 2) archaic extravagant. DERIVATIVES profusely adverb profuseness noun profusion noun. ORIGIN Latin profusus lavish, spread out … English terms dictionary
profuseness — noun see profuse … New Collegiate Dictionary
profuseness — See profusely. * * * … Universalium
profuseness — noun /proʊˈfjus.nəs/ The quality of being profuse; profusion … Wiktionary
profuseness — pro fuseÂ·ness || prÉ™ fjuËsnÉªs n. generousness, quality of giving freely; extravagance, wastefulness; abundance, plentifulness … English contemporary dictionary
profuseness — n. See profusion … New dictionary of synonyms
profuseness — pro·fuse·ness … English syllables
profuseness — noun the property of being extremely abundant the profusion of detail the idiomatic richness of English • Syn: ↑profusion, ↑richness, ↑cornucopia • Derivationally related forms: ↑rich ( … Useful english dictionary

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