profusion

CEFRC1

/pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/

noun

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01
noun
A very large amount or variety of something.
02
noun
Extra detail
lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance

Examples

A profusion of dandelions had coloured the meadow yellow.
The marriage guests, on the present occasion, were regaled with a banquet of unbounded profusion.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

There's a profusion of rhododendron in her garden, blooming in a variety of colours.
His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.
We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.

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We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.
1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo...
Although houses and factories appeared in great profusion in the 1930s, there still remain odd groups of cottages dating from an earlier and more countrified period.
1951 November, R. K. Kirkland, “The Wimbledon and West Croydon Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 721
Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251
Elected leaders face a profusion of mega-pressure points these days – inflation, heat waves, high debt, or the pandemic.
2022 July 18, “Italian pride in a leader's humility”, in The Christian Science Monitor

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From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio.