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profusion

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of profusion

1 a considerable amount
  • Apples grow in profusion in this valley.
Synonyms of profusion

abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to profusion

epidemic, plague, rash

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood, overflow

army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng
Phrases Synonymous with profusion

all kinds (of), quite a bit
Near Antonyms of profusion

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

smatter, smattering
Antonyms of profusion

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, tad, touch, trace
2 the quality or fact of being free or wasteful in the expenditure of money
  • In giving gifts, he was generous to the point of profusion.
Synonyms of profusion

extravagance, extravagancy, lavishness, prodigality, wastefulness
Words Related to profusion

conspicuous consumption, splurge

bountifulness, generosity, liberality

improvidence, squandering

indulgence, overindulgence, self-indulgence

excess, immoderacy, overkill
Near Antonyms of profusion

austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance
Antonyms of profusion

economy, frugality, penny-pinching

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