plenitude

[plen-i-tood, -tyood] /ˈplɛn ɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/
noun
1.
fullness or adequacy in quantity, measure, or degree; abundance:
a plenitude of food, air, and sunlight.
2.
state of being full or complete.
Origin
1375-1425; late Middle English < Latin plēnitūdō. See plenum, -i-, tude
Related forms
overplenitude, noun
Can be confused
planetary, plenary, plentiful, plenitude.
Synonyms
1. profusion, quantity.
Examples from the web for plenitude
  • Of the plenitude of its stimulus, there can be no question.
  • Moment of green shoots and budding flowers, promising peace and plenitude.
  • At times this plenitude of figurative language can become the book's undoing.
  • There is a kind of leisureliness, a plenitude of incident and conversation.
  • The characters it engenders are dazed by what may be called the principle of plenitude.
  • Her expression of happiness belongs to her perfection, to the plenitude of her being.
  • What he liked about these books was their sense of plenitude and economy.
  • The school of menhaden survives and swims on, its losses dwarfed in plenitude.
British Dictionary definitions for plenitude

plenitude

/ˈplɛnɪˌtjuːd/
noun
1.
abundance; copiousness
2.
the condition of being full or complete
Word Origin
C15: via Old French from Latin plēnitūdō, from plēnus full
Word Origin and History for plenitude
n.

early 15c., from Old French plenitude and directly from Latin plenitudinem (nominative plenitudo) "abundance, completeness, fullness," from plenus "complete, full" (see plenary).