profuseness

Other forms of profuseness

plural

profusenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about profuseness

What does profuseness mean?

profuseness means "the property of being extremely abundant".

How many syllables are in profuseness?

profuseness has 4 syllables: pro-fu-se-ness. The stress falls on "fu".

What is another word for profuseness?

Close synonyms include profusion, richness, cornucopia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is profuseness a common word?

profuseness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.