Profusion vs Overflow - What's the difference?

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Profusion is a related term of overflow.

As nouns the difference between profusion and overflow

is that profusion is profusion, abundance while overflow is the spillage resultant from overflow; excess.

As a verb overflow is

to flow over the brim of (a container).

profusion

English

Noun

(en noun)

abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia

His hair, in great profusion , streamed down over his shoulders.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), 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

overflow

English

Noun

(en noun)

The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.

Outlet for escape of excess material.

(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

Derived terms

* overflow hole

Verb

(en verb)

To flow over the brim of (a container).

The river overflowed the levee.

To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.

The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.

* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water

To cause an overflow. (rfex)

To flow over the edge of a container.

The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.

To exceed limits or capacity.

The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.

# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.

Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

To be superabundant; to abound.

(Rogers)

Derived terms

* buffer overflow * underflow English heteronyms ----