Noun: abundance
| Singular | abundance |
| Plural | abundances |
Sample Sentences
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Due to the abundance of art material, the class made a giant collage.
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There is not a great abundance of time, so please don't dawdle.
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It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. [c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War:]
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It is noteworthy that whereas socialists formerly denounced capitalism for producing poverty, the main grievance of the Frankfurt school is that it engenders abundance and satisfies a multiplicity of needs, and is thus injurious to the higher forms of culture. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 377:]
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In The Nation, Jeet Heer recently wrote that abundance “amounts to a new iteration of neoliberalism promoting deregulation and business-friendly policies.” [2025 April 24, Ned Resnikoff, “A YIMBY Theory of Power”, in The Nation:]
Nouns inflected like abundance
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English abundaunce, habaundance, from Old French habundance, abondance, from Latin abundantia (“fullness, plenty”), from abundō (“to overflow”). Equivalent to abound + -ance. Displaced Old English geniht (“abundance, plenty”). See: Middle English Nouns '
abundaunce', Latin Nouns '
abundantia'.