Amplitude describes something there is a lot of, or abundance. If people compliment the amplitude of emotion in your poetry, it means you put much emotion into what you write.

The noun amplitude describes the depth, breadth, or magnitude of something — in other words, how big or full it is. It comes from the Latin amplus, "large, spacious." You can admire the amplitude of your favorite teacher's intelligence or try to guess the amplitude of a snow storm. In physics, amplitude is a change in oscillation or vibration, and in math it's the angle made with the positive horizontal axis by the vector representation of a complex number.

Definitions of amplitude

n greatness of magnitude

signal level
the amplitude level of the desired signal
background level, noise level
the amplitude level of the undesired background noise
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n (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave

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displacement, shift
an event in which something is displaced without rotation

n the property of copious abundance

bountifulness, bounty
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abundance, copiousness, teemingness
the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply

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