| n. | 1. | An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: - strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. |
| Noun | 1. | abundance - the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance" Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness Antonyms: scarceness, scarcity - a small and inadequate amount |
| 2. | abundance - (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | |
| 3. | abundance - (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million |
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