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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
richness
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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▪ 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, and our need to continue developing our faith is something we share in common.
▪ Eggs also add a richness and help the leavening but they can be omitted if necessary.
▪ In small quantities it adds a tangy richness to mince pies and Christmas pudding.
▪ Delicate waves and subtle highlights enhance gentle movement Natural colourant adds richness to long, wavy hair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All are printed in platinum, an expensive and painstaking process that yields black-and-white prints of great textual richness.
▪ And it's almost defiantly thick, but I miss the smoky richness that bacon or ham brings to the recipe.
▪ It is equally doubtful that more media richness is always better.
▪ Its warmth and richness will add the finishing touches that are all important to the dress of your dreams.
▪ She secured new buildings; and her recruitment of distinguished lecturers and performers from many spheres brought intellectual excitement and cultural richness.
▪ The individuality and richness of their lives - given a glance of a chance - mocked such lumpen labels.
▪ The remarkable natural richness of the coral reef has been squeezed further into the hyper-natural richness of a synthetic reef.
▪ Use any medium, charcoal, ink or pencil to explore and express the richness and vitality of the bird world.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Richness

Richness \Rich"ness\, n. The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
richness

mid-14c., from rich (adj.) + -ness.

Wiktionary
richness

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.

WordNet
richness

  1. n. the property of being extremely abundant [syn: profusion, profuseness, cornucopia]

  2. abundant wealth [syn: affluence]

  3. the property of a sound that has a rich and pleasing timbre [syn: fullness, mellowness]

  4. the property of producing abundantly and sustaining growth; "he praised the richness of the soil" [syn: prolificacy, fertility]

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.