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The property of being extremely abundant
Answer for the clue "The property of being extremely abundant ", 8 letters:
richness
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Word definitions for richness in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from rich (adj.) + -ness .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or quality of being rich; richdom. 2 (context ecology English) The number of types in a community. 3 (context countable English) The result or product of being rich.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB add ▪ Temporary colorants are a good way to add warmth, richness and shine to your natural shade. ▪ The little bits of ripe avocado add an unmistakable richness . ▪ Our different understandings add richness to the Church, ...
Usage examples of richness.
Its waste is a wanton expenditure, which robs the blood of its richness and exhausts the body of its animating powers.
The richness of our linguistic recall may be biologically no more mysterious than the capacity of a homing pigeon to navigate precisely over hundreds of kilometres or a dog to distinguish and remember thousands of different odours at almost infinitesimally low concentration.
As no woman was ever more conceited of her beauty, or more desirous of making impression on the hearts of beholders, no one ever went to a greater extravagance in apparel, or studied more the variety and richness of her dresses.
The Horse Radish of our gardens is a cultivated cruciferous plant of which the fresh root is eaten, when scraped, as a condiment to correct the richness of our national roast beef.
When the level prairie merged into low rolling hills, dotted with fescue and feather grass and red with the richness of iron ore -- the red ochre making it hallowed ground -- Brun knew the salt marsh was not far beyond.
Angelo As I had engaged myself to provide an absolutely impenetrable disguise, I wanted to invent a costume remarkable at once for its originality and its richness.
Morosini, noticing the richness of my dress and my general appearance of prosperity, said that while I had to stay away he had to return, and that he considered me the luckier man.
I, wishing to shine in the eyes of the proud Venetian nobles, had dressed myself with the utmost richness.
He had to confess that my alterations were positive improvements, due to the great richness of the French language.
Nor was it long when, in the centre of his bodyguard, surrounded by his domestic officers and those hideous negroes who guard the Eastern haram, and whose misshapen forms were rendered yet more frightful by the richness of their attire, came the Soldan, with the look and manners of one on whose brow Nature had written, This is a King!
Considering from the nebular point of view the vast complexity and subtlety of the living worlds, I began to wonder whether the endless divagations of the worlds were really due so much to richness of being as to weakness of spiritual perception, so much to the immensely varied potentiality of their nature as to sheer lack of any intense controlling experience.
She wore a pavonine brocade gown of amazing richness and raggedness, and as I watched her, the sun touched a rent just below her waist, turning the skin there to palest gold.
Beside him walked his wife, Alu Pek Voratur, dressed with similar richness.
From afar came the song of a fellow presence, steeped in jungle-moist richness, and a call of wonder from a young one high in the snowed, timberless mountains.
I purchase many from contacts in your unisphere, but none are from secure stores, none are as complete as those you bring for me, none have the richness of human existence, the trueness that I cherish.