Exuberant quality of a social event providing cake? (9)
I believe the answer is:
abundance
'exuberant quality' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'social event providing cake?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'social' could be 'dance' (I've seen this before) and 'dance' is found in the answer.
'cake?' could be 'bun' (bun is a type of cake) and 'bun' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'a' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
'of a' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for abundance that I've seen before include "great amount" , "State of plenty" , "Plentiful supply" , "Ample sufficiency or great plenty." , "Plethora" .)