richness

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"A few dozen words in both quotes that evoke such richness.

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of richness gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

abundant wealth; "they studied forerunners of richness or poverty"; "the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty"

noun

the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing; "the music had a fullness that echoed through the hall"; "the cheap wine had no body, no mellowness"; "he was well aware of the richness of his own appearance"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for richness.

noun

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

See also: profusion, profuseness, cornucopia

noun

abundant wealth; "they studied forerunners of richness or poverty"; "the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty"

noun

the quality of having high intrinsic value; "the richness of the mines and pastureland"; "the cut of her clothes and the richness of the fabric were distinctive"

noun

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovely in their rankness"

See also: rankness, prolificacy, fertility

noun

a strong deep vividness of hue; "the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room"

noun

splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora"

Example sentences

"A few dozen words in both quotes that evoke such richness.

This is not a weakness, this is a strength of the richness of the field and how much exploration we've done.

Web Intents can serve as Android intents and we can have the richness and ease of webOS and free cross-platform web apps.

Most frequently, DT languages have such a richness of types that there's no way to infer them—you're forced to write out all of the top-level types.

The Android Google+ client is now superb, and the content richness seems to be greatly improving, particularly in the tech field.

"The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

Maps and Places absolutely blow away anything else that exists in terms of ease of use and functionality and richness of information.

But my grandfather and my father always got payed to work, so I trust this model, and I'm not seeking richness, so it's the perfect model for me, but not for everybody.

I certainly noticed an improvement after it happened and I think it's something that is needed in order to maintain a richness of quality in the comment threads.

In doing so, I recognized that I was regularly forced to write worse code in the pursuit of doing things idiomatically because I lacked the semantic richness of C++, let alone Scala.