plenitude

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  1. noun An ample amount or quantity; an abundance: a region blessed with a plenitude of natural resources.
  2. noun The condition of being full, ample, or complete.

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  • But the important consideration was that life should recover its plenitude, its normal contented turgidity. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • “Giordano is a firm believer in the Copernican system and the principle of plenitude,” he murmured. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • Reveling in its plenitude, the wave lofts higher and higher—and Del shoots up toward the supernal crest. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • Suffice it to say that the sort of set-pieces that one remembers long after having finished a Hamilton novel are here in plenitude, executed with skill, grace and verve. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#212
  • But seeing the people in their plenitude, the Messiah multiplied the waffles and the cigarettes, and those in Congress - His disciples - went forth with baskets of the new-found bounty. —  Girl On The Right
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin plēnitūdō, from plēnus, full; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French plénitude = Spanish plenitud = Portuguese plenitude = It pienitudine, from Latin plenitudo, fullness, from plenus, full: see plenty.
 

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