Profusion Meaning
/pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounabundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
nounlavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance
Sentence Examples
There's a profusion of rhododendron in her garden, blooming in a variety of colours.
The marriage guests, on the present occasion, were regaled with a banquet of unbounded profusion.
A profusion of dandelions had coloured the meadow yellow.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the rainy season, the forest showed a ____ of mushrooms and ferns.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The garden was filled with a ____ of wildflowers that attracted bees and butterflies all summer.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
"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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CEFR Practice Quiz
After the rainy season, the forest showed a ____ of mushrooms and ferns.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The garden was filled with a ____ of wildflowers that attracted bees and butterflies all summer.