luxuriancen.
/lʌɡˈʒʊərɪəns/, /ləɡˈʒʊərɪəns/, /lʌɡˈzjʊərɪəns/, /ləɡˈzjʊərɪəns/, /lʌkˈsjʊərɪəns/, /ləkˈsjʊərɪəns/, U.S. /ləɡˈʒʊriəns/, /ləkˈʃʊriəns/ The condition of being luxuriant; superabundant growth or development; exuberance; an instance of this. Also quasi-concrete.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [noun] > flourishing state or greenness
verdour1447
flourish1594
luxuritya1636
vernancy1669
luxuriancy1712
luxuriance1728
floridity1831
rankness1873
vernality1896
lushness1900
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness
richness1564
profuseness1584
prodigality1597
luxury?1611
luxuritya1636
luxuriancy1648
voluptuousness1652
luxuriance1728
luxuriation1839
lavishness1859
luxuriousness1872
overflowingness1883
lushness1900
1728 J. Thomson Spring 6 The whole leafy Forest stands display'd In full Luxuriance.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 87/2 Each had the luxuriances of the citizens to prune.
1777 E. Burke Let. to Sheriffs Bristol 77 The faults which grow out of the luxuriance of freedom.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 158 This calm luxuriance of blissful light.
1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zicci ii The luxuriance of his fancy was unabated.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 92 Vegetation..bursts forth in gigantic luxuriance and life.
1850 P. H. Gosse Sacred Streams v. 170 The cattle are driven..from considerable distances to feed on its luxuriance.
1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. vi. 312 The whole Equatorial zone is characterized by the extreme luxuriance of the vegetation.
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