Abundance is associated with the multiplicity of resources.
The word abundance comes from the Latin abundantia and refers to a large amount of something . The term can be used as a synonym for prosperity, wealth or well-being . For example: “I found abundance everywhere while walking the streets of Monaco.”
In this sense, the phrase “swimming in abundance” refers to enjoying great economic well-being and a significant amount of material wealth. This is probably the most common meaning of the term in everyday speech, and it is generally used with a hopeless tone, in that it serves to indicate its own absence . Taking the aforementioned expression, it is usually used in the first person and in the negative, to emphasize a regret for one's own economic situation.
material abundance
Material abundance is a concept that usually generates two opposing currents of opinion: on the one hand, there are those who respect the wealth of others, as long as it has a lawful origin; On the other hand, there are people who cannot stand the upper classes and give them all kinds of derogatory names. Within this last group, it is important to point out that many times those who reject wealthy people hide envy, deep desires to be the ones who can indulge themselves.
Likewise, material possessions are frowned upon by those who seek to live in harmony with nature, given that many of the most precious objects of consumerism involve excessive exploitation of resources. It is often said that wealth is not directly related to happiness, and that is why it is curious that a term that in principle represents well-being and the security of being able to cover the basic needs of life, can in turn have a negative connotation. and lack of commitment to the rest of living beings.
The horn of plenty is a symbolic representation of prosperity.
Multiplicity of resources
In a world where we all respected both ourselves and our environment, the abundance of some would probably become a source of wealth or food for those who needed it. However, in our desire to climb social and economic hierarchies, we cover our shortcomings with possessions and forget, generation after generation, everything that the Planet gives us selflessly, such as oxygen, water, food and beautiful and varied landscapes to explore and enjoy as we like.
Unlike our species, animals know how to take advantage of their resources and if it were not for our destructive acts, they would collaborate with the balance of nature as they have always done, and the world would be a place free of pollution and indiscriminate killing.
Cornucopia
On the other hand, the horn of plenty or cornucopia is a horn-shaped glass that represents abundance. It is a symbol of prosperity whose origins date back to the 5th century BC .
To understand its meaning, it is necessary to pay attention to Greek mythology : Amalthea raised Zeus with the milk of a goat and he, as a thank you, gave her one of the horns of a goat that had the power to fulfill her wishes. the person who owned it.
The term in chemistry, rhetoric and astronomy
Natural abundance , on the other hand, is the amount of each isotope of a chemical element that exists in nature, expressed as a percentage. The natural abundances of each isotope are used to calculate the atomic mass of the elements.
In rhetoric, abundance is the richness of thoughts or expressive procedures. One of the literary movements that is characterized by rhetorical abundance is baroque conceptism .
Abundantia is an asteroid discovered by Johann Palisa in November 1875 , from the Croatian city of Pula . The name was chosen by the director of the Vienna Observatory, Edmund Weiss .