Definition of "amassment" in Englisch

noun

1. The act of amassing.

   • All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune.
   • 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13, … no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the amassment of this World, or more Worlds then this one:

2. (countable) That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something).

   • Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information.