Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An ample amount or quantity; an abundance: a region blessed with a plenitude of natural resources.
- n. The condition of being full, ample, or complete.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Fullness; abundance; completeness.
- n. Repletion; animal fullness; plethora.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance.
- n. obsolete Animal fullness; repletion; plethora.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a full supply
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman plenitude, Middle French plenitude, and their source, Latin plēnitūdō. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin plēnitūdō, from plēnus, full; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Emptiness resides in plenitude and solitude, the problematic path for Buddhists and”
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism
“Emptiness resides in plenitude and solitude, the problematic path for Buddhists and Romanticists alike.”
“293 Although this comment suggests dietetic recipes (which the Book of Life offers in plenitude), Ficino is also referring to ingredients digested by the memory — Augustine's "stomach of the mind" — including such ruminatory staples as letters, numbers, and ideas.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“With the victories of Pompey (88 – 63 bce), pearls were brought back from the Orient in plenitude.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“To Complain's experienced hunter's eye, their plenitude was a sign that there were few wild animals in the area, the seeds being delicacies to dog and pig alike.”
“The gesture is demanded by some inner 'welling-up', a sense of 'plenitude' which transforms the grey landscape of dawn into spaciousness (216).”
“Rather, the essence is a kind of plenitude that displays itself in the endless play of appearances.”
“This would be a workspace conducive to creativity, with the expansive spaces, the tough interior with its natural materials and the plenitude of opportunities to bathe the eyes and spirit in views of the natural surroundings.”
“Thus, after the period of fasting had come the plenitude of feasting, and thus, in broad daylight, they slept heavily under their roofs of moosehide.”
“Their granaries were overflowing with plenitude; yet they wanted to keep the sharp famine-edge of their love undulled.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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Interesting words
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words - real or unreal - ending in -itude: An it-ode as opposed to an itune???
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Words as I learn them.
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Words. Just words.
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That is to say that there are only words in this list, not words that are just, although s...profligacy, monty, the arc of history, luddite, peremptory, brusque, languid, callipygian, perniciously, insidiousness, camelot, perforce and 189 more...
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voluptuary, noxious, plenitude, quotidian, mired, unregenerate, insolent, interlocutor, impudent, commiserate, ineluctable, dialectic and 31 more...
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GRE 3500 O
oblivion, oblivious, obstetrician, obstinate, obstreperous, outlandish, outmoded, obtrude, obtuse, obviate, odious, odorous and 52 more...
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