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Profusion vs Overgrowth - What's the difference?

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Profusion is a related term of overgrowth.


As nouns the difference between profusion and overgrowth

is that profusion is profusion, abundance while overgrowth is a usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else a tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles.

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

    • overgrowth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else. A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles.
  • An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
  • Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.

    • Synonyms

    *hyperplasia *hypertrophy *gigantism

    Antonyms

    * undergrowth