abundances

Overflowing amounts everywhere

Abundances is the plural of abundance, referring to multiple instances or types of plentiful supply.

The word appears most often in scientific contexts, where it describes the relative quantities of different elements or isotopes: measuring the abundances of heavy metals in seawater, isotopic abundances vary by region.

Outside technical writing, the plural is uncommon—abundance usually works as an uncountable noun.

excess

overflow

Exceed capacity and spill

  • surplusAmount exceeding requirement
  • glutExcessive surplus
  • surfeitExcessive quantity, often cloying

oversupply · saturation · plethora · profusion · excess · redundancy · overstock · overage · superfluity · embarrassment

Opposites
quantity/availability

abundancesscarcities

States of insufficient supply

shortages · deficiencies · lacks · dearths · paucities

sufficiency

abundancesinadequacies

Points where something fails

deprivations · deficits · shortfalls · undersupplies · privations

availability/presence

abundancesabsences

States of being away

lacks · voids · vacuums · emptinesses · nonexistences

Phrases
Family

abundance, overabundance, superabundance

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G