Fecund vs Abundant - What's the difference?
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(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
* 2001 , Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population? , page 9
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(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
* 1906 , , "The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences", in The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings? , volume II, page 373
Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
* [W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation. — Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination
Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
* Abundant in goodness and truth. — Exodus, 34:6
(mathematics) Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
As adjectives the difference between fecund and abundant
is that fecund is highly fertile; able to produce offspring while abundant is fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.fecund
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(en adjective)- The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund' period, and (2) the portion of the ' fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
- This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund ; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.