profusion

From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

profusion (countable and uncountable, plural profusions)

1. abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia

   His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI

     We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.

2. lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance

profusion f (plural profusions)

1. profusion

• “profusion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).