Used in a Sentence

profusion

How to use profusion in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for profusion.

Editorial note

A profusion of TLDs only serves to degrade what "real-looking" means to non-nerds.

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Quick take

the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for profusion.

noun

the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"

Example sentences

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A profusion of TLDs only serves to degrade what "real-looking" means to non-nerds.

2

Even so, there were some musicians who tried to emulate the old C64 sound on the Amiga, hence the profusion of chiptune-sounding MODs.

3

Because of this massive profusion of laws this, of course, leaves a huge amount of discretion at the hands of agents of the criminal justice system.

4

A year later someone joins and is disgusted with the profusion of cron scripts, they want everything organized around a message queue.

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It used to be sensible, when having a profusion of publishers was the only way to guarantee the plurality of opinions.

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The caffeine will activate cAMP, causing some dilation of cerebral blood vessels, getting more profusion to the noggin, helping overcome the headache.

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To obscure that dissatisfying answer, sellers toss out the profusion of specifications in an attempt to convince buyers that the product is good enough to buy anyway.

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This has obnoxious issues and is one of the reasons for the profusion of packages--the norm is to change the name for incompatible changes so that old users can continue on.

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It's competition that is driving cell phone development, not a profusion of many thousands of government-granted monopolies over aspects of each phone.

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But, the last 150 years have seen a veritable explosion in the specialization and profusion of occupations which were previously economically unviable.

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Yow... is there a word for the special kind of bubble we're in now, with the profusion of Javascript and schema-free datastore-lovin' folks whose lack of experience in static typing and relational databases does not--in even the slightest way--constrain them from pronouncing their irrelevance?

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"The directors of such [joint-stock] companies, however, being the managers rather of other people’s money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use profusion in a sentence?

A profusion of TLDs only serves to degrade what "real-looking" means to non-nerds.

What does profusion mean?

the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"

What part of speech is profusion?

profusion is commonly used as noun.