(n.) The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.
(n.) Animal fullness; repletion; plethora.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have also retrofitted old-style nationalism for their growing populations of uprooted citizens, who harbour yearnings for belonging and community as well as material plenitude.
(2) With respect to the first one, dialectic thinking would allow to understand vital history as the unfolding in time of a consciousness that is being splinted in contradictions of increasing tension up to its resolution in a failure (disease) or in a synthesis that implies a step forward in the maturation, plenitude or wisdom.
(3) (4) The traditional structures refer to the possibility of the mother imagining herself as completed by the child: the blocking of that illusion is associated with psychosis; the weakness of the desire, once established, demands, in the context of perversion, the presence of the figure of plenitude.
(4) The mavens of Madison Avenue tell us: “He who dies with the most toys wins.” So we measure self-worth by what we buy, going deeper in debt to project the perception of plenitude.
(5) Like many racists, Powell was nostalgic in his fantasies: before all this mixing, there was a time of clarity and plenitude, when Britishness was fixed and people knew who they were.
(6) Nor could the chosen diction of the American have been further from the socially diagnostic wit of Jane Austen or the stuffed-pudding plenitude of the young Dickens.
(7) The principle of plenitude and the paradigm of the "chain of Being" form the tie among the phenomena.
(8) With its velvet richness, it has always struck me as one of the greatest paintings in the National, and the polar opposite of The Death of Actaeon; to the modern eye, the Veronese can actually look too finished, almost Victorian in its plenitude.
(9) disease) or into a synthesis implying a step forward towards maturation, plenitude, or wisdom.
Plenty
Definition:
(a.) Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.
(a.) Plentiful; abundant.
Example Sentences:
(1) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(2) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(3) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
(4) In the nerve fibre running between the sensory cells there are plenty of mitochondria but few clear vesicles and neurofilaments.
(5) But there is plenty here that thrills, from grand plans for offshore power production to the micro-engineeering of intelligent load management.
(6) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(7) Whilst a charity may seem to have plenty of cash to meet its general liabilities, if the money is in the form of restricted funds it can only be used with permission of the donor or the Charity Commission .
(8) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
(9) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(10) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
(11) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
(12) There are plenty of creative, lawyerly brains in Brussels: with goodwill, they might just find a way through.
(13) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
(14) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
(15) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
(16) Some consumers are aware we are earning so little, but there are plenty who really don’t care as long as it’s cheap John has calculated that he often takes home as little as £5.75 an hour, and rarely earns above the national minimum wage of £7.50.
(17) There have been plenty of calls for the European Central Bank to authorise a programme of quantitative easing when it meets this week, and the ECB president, Mario Draghi, appeared to be responding in a recent speech in the US, only to row back.
(18) Although the crude oil rally has already started at the end of last month when the Opec first announced the deal, I think there is plenty of fuel left in this rally,” he said.
(19) One of his principal worries is up front, where his main man is Michal Duris, who has scored plenty of goals for Viktoria Plzen in the Czech league this season but it is easy to add the caveat that it is only the Czech league.
(20) From Frances O'Grady , the TUC general secretary While it's good news that unemployment is still falling and more jobs are being created, there is still plenty to be worried about.