Virginia Postrel

The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threatens political and cultural authorities who believe in telling individuals what they can have rather than letting them choose for themselves.

American Writer

Eduardo Galeano

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

Uruguayan Journalist

Jay Parini

Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.

Rudolf Arnheim

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

German Artist

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

German Poet

Albert Camus

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

French Philosopher

Gaston Bachelard

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Andre Aciman

I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.

Edward Hirsch

American Poet

Use 'plenitude' when emphasizing the large quantity of something available or present.

Quantitative Use

'Plenitude' often carries a positive note, suggesting a beneficial abundance.

Positive Connotation

Best used in formal or literary contexts, rather than in casual everyday conversation.

Suitable Contexts

Use 'plenitude' to describe a state where nothing is missing and everything is ample.

Completeness Aspect

'Plenitude' can refer to a variety of elements that collectively create a sense of completeness.

Fullness in Variety

Often used metaphorically to suggest a non-material fullness, like knowledge or emotions.

Figurative Use

 It's the principle of plenitude or fecundity, or the great chain of being, that reality is actually as full as possible. It's as far removed from nothingness as it could possibly be. So we have these two extremes now.

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Quantitative Use

Positive Connotation

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