Abundance vs Wealthy - What's the difference?
abundance | wealthy |
A large quantity; many.
An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
* (rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
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Possessing financial wealth; rich.
Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse.
(uncountable, preceded by the) Rich people.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
(countable) A rich person.
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As nouns the difference between abundance and wealthy
is that abundance is a large quantity; many while wealthy is (uncountable|preceded by the) rich people.As an adjective wealthy is
possessing financial wealth; rich.abundance
English
(wikipedia abundance)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) abundaunce * (obsolete) habundance * (obsolete) boundance * (card games) abondanceNoun
(en noun)- It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.
Usage notes
* Synonym notes: Abundance , Plenty]], [[exuberance, Exuberance. These words rise upon each other in expressing the idea of fullness. ** Plenty'' denotes a sufficiency to supply every want; as, ''plenty'' of food, ''plenty of money, etc. ** Abundance'' express more, and gives the idea of superfluity or excess; as, ''abundance'' of riches, an ''abundance of wit and humor; often, however, it only denotes plenty in a high degree. ** Exuberance'' rises still higher, and implies a bursting forth on every side, producing great superfluity or redundance; as, an ''exuberance'' of mirth, an ''exuberance of animal spirits, etc.Synonyms
* exuberance, plenteousness, plenty, copiousness, overflow, riches, affluence, wealthReferences
wealthy
English
(wikipedia wealthy)Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
* affluent, prosperous * See alsoAntonyms
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* independently wealthySee also
* upscaleNoun
(en-noun)citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}