rifeness

State of abundance

Rifeness is the state of being rife—widespread or prevalent.

The word typically describes the abundance of something undesirable: the rifeness of corruption in local government, the rifeness of misinformation online.

It's a formal noun form that appears more often in written than spoken English.

prevalence

pervasiveness

Extent of spreading throughout

epidemic · endemic · frequency · dominance · preponderance · regularity · persistence · extensiveness · universality · typicality

abundance

plenty

Sufficient quantity, and then some

surplus · excess · overflow · superabundance · glut · saturation · overabundance · preponderance · bounty · wealth

Opposites
prevalence/abundance

rifenessrarity

Uncommon occurrence

scarcity · scarceness · uncommonness · infrequency · dearth

Family

unripe, rife, ripening, ripened, ripens, overripe, ripest, riper, ripener

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