amount
The whole sum
Amount is a quantity of something, especially something uncountable: a small amount of sugar, the amount of time we have.
Purists insist amount applies only to mass nouns while number applies to countable things, but a large amount of people is common in speech.
As a verb, to amount to something is to add up to it or be equivalent: The changes amount to a complete overhaul.
Addition's result
gross · summation · accumulation · totality · grand total · subtotal · running total · final count
Fixed assigned amount
- allocationDistribution of shares
- capCovering for top
- ceilingRoom's upper surface
- maximumGreatest permitted quantity
allowance · threshold · budget · ration · restriction · upper bound · cutoff · constraint
Sufficient quantity, and then some
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- excessSurplus beyond need
- overflowExceed capacity and spill
- bountyReward for capture
profusion · wealth · plethora · glut · surfeit · superabundance · oversupply · overabundance
sum
Addition's result
whole · gross · summation · accumulation · totality · grand total · subtotal · running total · final count · bottom line
number
Symbol representing quantity
batch · portion · dose · ration · heap · mass · load · lot · measure · extent
quota
Fixed assigned amount
- allocationDistribution of shares
- capCovering for top
- ceilingRoom's upper surface
maximum · allowance · threshold · budget · ration · restriction · upper bound · cutoff · constraint · allotment
plenty
Sufficient quantity, and then some
bounty · profusion · wealth · plethora · glut · surfeit · superabundance · oversupply · overabundance · generous portion
stock
Goods kept for sale
inventory · stockpile · provision · cache · availability · reservoir · stores · holdings · balance · remaining
scale
Measure of relative size
proportion · ratio · index · benchmark · gauge · calibration · dimension · intensity · scope · range
- countingcounting, count, count up, countdown, tally
- counting wordscount, tally, total, sum, number
- magnitudemagnitude, size, extent, scope, scale
- quantitiessome, many, few, several, total
- portionsportion, serving, half portion, helping, serving size
- things you keep track ofscore, tally, total, count, sum
amountlack
Deficiency or absence
absence · dearth · deficiency · nothing · scarcity
amountestimate
Informed guess at quantity
approximation · guess · vagueness · uncertainty · ballpark
- small amountMinuscule quantity
- large amountConsiderable quantity of something
- tiny amountMinuscule quantity
- dollar amount
- trace amounts
- exact amount