plenitude
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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.
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| —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
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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
What he liked about these books was their sense of plenitude and economy.
There is a kind of leisureliness, a plenitude of incident and conversation.
Of the plenitude of its stimulus, there can be no question.
Her expression of happiness belongs to her perfection, to the plenitude of her being.
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