different between profusion vs wantonness
profusion
English
Etymology
From Middle French profusion, from Late Latin profusio
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /p?o??fju??n/, /p???fju??n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??(?)?fju???n/
- Rhymes: -u???n
- Hyphenation: pro?fu?sion
Noun
profusion (countable and uncountable, plural profusions)
- abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
- His hair, in great profusion, streamed down over his shoulders.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
- We set the men at work felling trees, selecting for the purpose jarrah, a hard, weather-resisting timber which grew in profusion near by.
- lavish or imprudent expenditure; prodigality or extravagance
Translations
French
Noun
profusion f (plural profusions)
- profusion
Derived terms
Further reading
- “profusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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wantonness
English
Etymology
From Middle English wantonnesse, wantonesse, wantounesse, wantownesse, equivalent to wanton +? -ness.
Noun
wantonness (usually uncountable, plural wantonnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV scene ii[1]:
- The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, ch. 16:
- The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV scene ii[1]:
- (countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
- 1882, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty, Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366:
- These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.
- 1882, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty, Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366:
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