richness

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English richenesse; by surface analysis, rich +‎ ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪt͡ʃnəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

richness (usually uncountable, plural richnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
2. (uncountable) The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎^[1], page 297:

     By using the same classification system for all the dictionaries surveyed, it was possible to compare the lexical richness of each against the other.

3. (ecology) The number of types in a community.
4. (countable) The result or product of being rich.

Related terms

• enrichment

Translations

state or quality of being rich

• Bulgarian: богатство (bg) n (bogatstvo)
• Catalan: ricor f, riquesa (ca) f
• Esperanto: riĉeco
• Finnish: rikkaus (fi)
• French: richesse (fr) f
• German: Reichtum (de) m
• Irish: saibhreas m
• Italian: ricchezza (it)
• Kazakh: байлық (kk) (bailyq)
• Latin: opulentia
• Latvian: bagātība f, mantīgums m
• Middle English: richenesse, richedom
• Polish: bogactwo (pl) n, bogatość (pl) f (rare)
• Portuguese: riqueza (pt) f
• Romanian: bogăție (ro)
• Russian: бога́тство (ru) n (bogátstvo)
• Slovene: bogastvo (sl) n
• Thai: ความรวย (th) (kwaam-ruai)
• Turkish: zenginlik (tr), varlıklılık (tr), varsıllık (tr)

ecology: number of types

• Finnish: lajirikkaus

result of being rich

• Finnish: rikkaus (fi)
• Ingrian: rikassos

See also

• (ecology): biodiversity