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copiousness

Word definitions for copiousness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance" [syn: abundance , teemingness ] [ant: scarcity ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being copious

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copiousness \Co"pi*ous*ness\, n. The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. --Dryden. Syn: Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.

Usage examples of copiousness.

The harmony and copiousness of style will not reach, in a version, the European infidel: he will peruse with impatience the endless incoherent rhapsody of fable, and precept, and declamation, which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, which sometimes crawls in the dust, and is sometimes lost in the clouds.

Their very language--a type of the understandings of which it was the creation and the image--in variety, in simplicity, in flexibility, and in copiousness, excels every other language of the western world.

Every original language near to its source is in itself the chaos of a cyclic poem: the copiousness of lexicography and the distinctions of grammar are the works of a later age, and are merely the catalogue and the form of the creations of poetry.

There is the same variety of character, the same diversity of story, the same copiousness of incident, the same research into costume, the same display of heraldry, falconry, minstrelsy, scenery, monkery, witchery, devilry, robbery, poachery, piracy, fishery, gipsy-astrology, demonology, architecture, fortification, castrametation, navigation.

It abounds in metrical faults, but is occasionally not without some rude spirit and some copiousness of fancy in the variation of the circumstances in the different combats of the hero Walther, prince of Aquitania.