different between fullness vs plenitude

English

Alternative forms

• fulness

Etymology

From Middle English fulnesse, folnesse, from Old English fulnes, fylnes, fyllnis (“completeness; abundance”), equivalent to full +? -ness. Cognate with Old High German folnissi (“fullness”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?f?ln?s/
• Hyphenation: full?ness

Noun

fullness (usually uncountable, plural fullnesses)

1. Being full; completeness.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. The degree to which a space is full.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (figuratively) The degree to which fate has become known. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. (bodybuilding): A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected.

Synonyms

• (being full): entirety, whole; see also Thesaurus:entirety

Derived terms

• fullness of time

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English plenitude, that borrowed from Anglo-Norman plenitude, Middle French plenitude, and their source, Latin pl?nit?d?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pl?n?tju?d/

Noun

plenitude (countable and uncountable, plural plenitudes)

1. Fullness; completeness. [from 15th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 393:

     Louis ignored him, recalling the parlements to the plenitude of their powers on 23 September.

2. An abundance; a full supply. [from 17th c.]
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 156]:

     Mankind's old greatness was created in scarcity. But what may we expect from plenitude?

3. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• plenitude principle
• plentitude

Related terms

• plenty
• plenitudine

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?nit?d?.

Noun

plenitude f (oblique plural plenitudes, nominative singular plenitude, nominative plural plenitudes)

1. plenitude; fullness

Descendants

• ? English: plenitude
• French: plénitude

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (plenitude, supplement)
• plenitude on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub