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plenitude

[plen-i-tood, -tyood] Origin

plen·i·tude

[plen-i-tood, -tyood]
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

o·ver·plen·i·tude, noun

planetary, plenary, plentiful, plenitude.


1. profusion, quantity.

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plenitude (ˈplɛnɪˌtjuːd)
 
n
1.  abundance; copiousness
2.  the condition of being full or complete
 
[C15: via Old French from Latin plēnitūdō, from plēnus full]

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plenitude
early 15c., from O.Fr. plenitude, from L. plenitudinem (nom. plenitudo) "abundance, completeness, fullness," from plenus "complete, full" (see plenary).
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