uberty

/ˈjuːbəti/

Etymology

From Middle French uberté, from Latin ūbertās, from ūber.

Why this word is great

UBERTY — [Noun] Fertile growth, abundance, or copiousness. From Middle French uberté, from Latin ūbertās ("fruitfulness, abundance"), from ūber ("fertile, fruitful"). Unlike "exuberance" (which spills over with unchecked energy) or "plenty" (which merely counts what is there), "uberty" is abundance with purpose—the earth’s quiet, persistent yes. It is the orchard heavy with unpicked fruit, the field gone wild with goldenrod, or the way a single fallen apple seeds a dozen saplings in its rot. Life, it seems, will always choose more life.

noun

  1. Fertile growth, abundance, fruitfulness; copiousness, plenty.“'And yiff a tre with frut be ovirlade'/In his epistles he seith, as ye may see,/'Both braunche and bough wol enclyne and fade,/And greyne oppressith to moche vberte:/Right so it farith of fals felicite,/That of his weighte mesure doth exceede/Than of a fal gretly is to dreede'.”