Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being abundant.

Etymologies

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abundance +‎ -y

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Examples

  • "There is no way to re-educate consumers within the age-old culture of abundancy, the Siamese twin of the culture of waste," writes financial columnist Joelmir Beting.

    The Perils Of Abundance 2007

  • And the air here was of a great thickness and abundancy, even as it might be the air of this our Age; or maybe more or maybe less; for who may compare two matters with a sure guessing, that do have an eternity to keep them asunder.

    The Night Land 2007

  • I loved to dump out all of my candy, and after reveling in the sheer abundancy, I would take inventory.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Jay 2006

  • I mentioned fiber optics: their abundancy tends to make things free.

    Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail 2004

  • I mentioned fiber optics: their abundancy tends to make things free.

    Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail 2004

  • I mentioned fiber optics: their abundancy tends to make things free.

    Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail 2004

  • They also state that abundancy of food has a tendency to tame the males.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Sometimes the reported "sausages" were not there when he arrived, and sometimes there was a super-abundancy of German airplanes on guard.

    Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun James Rogers 1917

  • And the air here was of a great thickness and abundancy, even as it might be the air of this our Age; or maybe more or maybe less; for who may compare two matters with a sure guessing, that do have an eternity to keep them asunder.

    The Night Land: Chapter 8 1912

  • Then, again, the irrigation of a district, which is effected by the snow fields and glaciers of the mountains, is distinguished from that of other places by its comparatively greater abundancy, for the moist air which is driven over the cold mountain peaks deposits there most of the water it contains in the form of snow.

    Ice and Glaciers 1909

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