lack vs abundance vs plenty
Definitions
verb
- be without
noun
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
Examples
A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge.
Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining.
Definitions
noun
- (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
- (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present
- the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
Examples
The wives showed themselves true to stereotype by forever cooking meals containing an abundance of chips and driving to shoe shops in Japanese cabriolets.
But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings.
On a sunny summer day one can be overwhelmed by the abundance of the wildlife.
