quantity vs abundance

abundance vs quantity

quantity and abundance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quantity	Yes	No	No	No
abundance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, abundance is a hyponym of quantity; that is, abundance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than quantity:

quantity: an adequate or large amount
abundance: the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply

Other hyponyms of quantity include copiousness, teemingness.

quantity (noun)	abundance (noun)
how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify	the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
an adequate or large amount	(chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million
the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable	(physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present

Difference between quantity and abundance

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