SUPERABUNDANCE Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

superabundance

noun

Definition of superabundance

as in abundance

an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs a superabundance of donations flowed in after the family's plight was seen on national TV

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as in surplus

the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed a superabundance of applicants for a limited number of jobs

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Recent Examples of superabundance Perhaps the threat wasn’t quite so dire, or its parameters were not well-enough defined, and the Secret Service acted out of a superabundance of caution. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2026 Three grasses—rice, maize, and wheat—account for 90 percent of this superabundance, supplying us with two thirds of food calories. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026 This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Despite this modest tourism boom, the town retains plentiful architectural evidence of its history as a turn-of-the-century manufacturing hub, with an abundance of red-brick and steel edifices lining its streets.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2026
This second shift seemed counterintuitive and maladaptive, since peak insect abundance is directly related to snowmelt.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of abundance

Noun

His fortune has also swelled thanks to gains from his private investment firm DFO Management—which manages his wealth and capital—and invests in public stocks, private companies, real estate, and liquid corporate credit.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026
The tax-aware long-short SMA trade became the hottest product in wealth management, and the two biggest custodians are actively shutting it down for new advisor allocations.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of wealth

Noun

The whole thing was essentially an American Cadillac crossed with an Italian coachbuilt exotic, at a time when Detroit was already going completely bonkers with automotive excess.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2026
Ancient critics could never quite agree on the direction of causality between Euripides’ formal excesses and the political decay of Athens around him — and Lichtenberg thinks that same ambiguity now surrounds AI.

— Aris Alexander, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026

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