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English
Etymology
From plenteous + -ness.
Noun
plenteousness (usually uncountable, plural plenteousnesses)
- An abundant supply; abundance.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Fête at Sir Robert Walpole’s”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 31:Few, save the poor, feel for the poor:
The rich know not, how hard
It is to be of needful food
And needful rest debarred.
Their paths are paths of plenteousness,
They sleep on silk and down;
And never think how heavily
The weary head lies down.