Profusion: meaning, example and synonyms
Profusionn. A very large quantity of something; abundance.
Example
After the unusually wet spring, the botanist recorded a profusion of wildflowers on slopes that had been nearly barren the year before.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Synonyms
- abundance, plethora, wealth, glut
- Antonyms
- scarcity, dearth, paucity, shortage
- Memory tip
- pro (forth) + fusion (pouring): poured out in abundance.
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Check yourself: Profusion in context
Visitors to the coral reef are often overwhelmed by the ______ of life there: hundreds of fish species, sponges, and anemones crowd into a few square meters.
Answer: profusion. Hundreds of species crowded together is an abundance of life. Animosity (hostility), apathy (indifference) and latency (dormancy) don't describe a large quantity.
The archive's problem was not scarcity but ______; with millions of uncatalogued letters, historians struggled to locate any single document.
Answer: profusion. The contrast with scarcity and the millions of letters call for abundance. Vigilance, tutelage and animosity are not the opposite of scarcity.