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amassment

noun
/əˈmæsmənt/

Etymology

Probably from French amassement (“the act of amassing; the result of this action, objects that have been amassed or piled up”); equivalent to amass + -ment.

  1. derived from amassement

Definitions

  1. The act of amassing.

    • All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune.
    • [...] Curmudgeons among Books, are as discoverable as those among Bags; and [...] they may lose more Honour and Credit, than gain Wisdom or Happiness, by the fruitless Amassment and Imprisonment of either.

  2. That which is amassed

    That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something).

    • Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information.
    • [Phancy, i.e. imagination, is] but an amassment of imaginary conceptions, praejudices, ungrounded opinions, and infinite Impostures;

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for amassment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA