Abundance or a great quantity of something; in classical rhetoric, the abundance and variety of words or expressions available to a speaker or writer.
From Latin 'copia' (abundance, plenty, resources), derived from 'co-' (together) + 'opes' (wealth, resources). The Romans valued this concept as essential to oratory.
Renaissance scholars were obsessed with 'copia'—the ability to express one idea in multiple eloquent ways—and wrote entire manuals teaching writers how to achieve linguistic abundance, which is the opposite of our modern love for brevity.
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