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Richness

noun

The property of being extremely abundant. Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, profusion. "The idiomatic richness of English"

Abundant wealth. Synonym: affluence. "The richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty"

The property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing. Synonyms: fullness, mellowness. "The cheap wine had no body, no mellowness" , "He was well aware of the richness of his own appearance"

The quality of having high intrinsic value. "The cut of her clothes and the richness of the fabric were distinctive"

The property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth. Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, rankness. "Weeds lovely in their rankness"

A strong deep vividness of hue.

Splendid or imposing in size or appearance. Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, magnificence. "Impressed by the richness of the flora"

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"Richness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Advancing in the scale of cost and fineness, we come to that most beautiful of all chinas—the gold-and-white—which can be had at from $50 a set up to as high as $1,500. The gilding is in coin gold, the effect of richness tempered with chastity being carried through all grades in varying intensity. It "expresses itself beyond expression," and is an ...

— The Complete Home • Various

... that modern poetry, if it has {96} lost in richness, has gained in directness, when one compares any passage in Marlowe and Chapman's Hero and Leander ...

— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

... Here was richness. This was Charlotte's workshop. She slept in a smaller room adjoining, the baby in the crib by her side; and with that smaller room little Ellen was familiar, but not with this. The tiny feet travelled eagerly about, from one desirable object to another. And presently she remembered the big, porcelain-lined ...

— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond

... literature that it can boast no name of commanding genius—no dramatist to rank with Shakespeare, no poet to rank with Keats, no novelist to rank with Thackeray, to take names only from our cousins oversea—and yet it displays a high level of talent and a notable richness of achievement. Literature requires a background of history and tradition; more than that, it requires leisure. A new nation spends its energies in the struggle for existence, and not until that existence is assured ...

— American Men of Mind • Burton E. Stevenson

... What richness! A good, clean deck running the whole length of the ship; a cosy and cheerful social hall, with a first-class upright piano of delicious tone, and at least a half dozen creditable performers to awaken the soul of it; a good table, ...

— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard

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