Richness
['rɪtʃnəs]
Definition
(noun.) a strong deep vividness of hue; 'the fire-light gave a richness of coloring to that side of the room'.
(noun.) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; 'he praised the richness of the soil'; 'weeds lovely in their rankness'.
(noun.) the quality of having high intrinsic value; 'the richness of the mines and pastureland'; 'the cut of her clothes and the richness of the fabric were distinctive'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Abundance, plenty, fulness, copiousness, luxuriance, exuberance, profusion.[2]. Fertility, fruitfulness, fecundity, productiveness.
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Examples
- If the village had been beautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She sat like a strange queen, almost supernatural in her glowing smiling richness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was a certain costermonger richness about her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Some stringed instruments give forth tones which are clear and sweet, but withal thin and lacking in richness and fullness. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The new plants, now that they had acquired the power to live this new aerial life, developed with an extraordinary richness and variety. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The richness of his deep voice added its own indescribable charm to the interesting business question which he had just addressed to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But there was a sense of richness and of liberty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What richness! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- His dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked upon as akin to bad taste. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When I entered her drawing-room at the hour she had appointed, I was struck with the elegant taste, more than with the richness of the furniture. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Our magnetic needle indicated the presence and richness of the invisible deposits of magnetic ore. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She thought Gudrun so CHARMING, so infinitely charming, in her softness and her fine, exquisite richness of texture and delicacy of line. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was the effect of rather sinister richness, in which Gerald at once escaped himself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When the story resumes again, we find life entering upon a fresh phase of richness and expansion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The richness of the ore and its purity of course affect the limestone consumption. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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