profusion
See also: profusión
English
Etymology
From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/, /pɹəˈfjuʒən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹə(ʊ)ˈfjuːʒən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːʒən
- Hyphenation: pro‧fu‧sion
Noun
profusion (countable and uncountable, plural profusions)
- abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
- His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:
- We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.
- 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250-251:
- Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
- 2022, Italian pride in a leader's humility, in: The Christian Science Monitor, 2022-07-18
- Elected leaders face a profusion of mega-pressure points these days – inflation, heat waves, high debt, or the pandemic.
- lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance
Translations
abundance
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lavish or imprudent expenditure
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French
Noun
profusion f (plural profusions)
- profusion
Derived terms
- à profusion
Further reading
- “profusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.