About The Word Plethora
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Plethora
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What's The Definition Of Plethora?
[n] extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Plethora: embarrassment | nimiety | overplus | superfluity Related Terms | Find terms related to Plethora: amplitude | avalanche | congestion | deluge | embarras de richesses | engorgement | enough | extravagance | extravagancy | flood | flood tide | full | fullness | glut | high tide | high water | hyperemia | impletion | inundation | landslide | lavishness | many | money to burn | more than enough | much | overabundance | overaccumulation | overbounteousness | overbrimming | overburden | overcharge | overcopiousness | overdose | overflow | overfreight | overfullness | overkill | overlavishness | overload | overluxuriance | overmeasure | overmuch | overmuchness | overnumerousness | overplentifulness | overplenty | overplus | overpopulation | overprofusion | overspill | oversufficiency | oversupply | overweight | plenitude | plenty | prodigality | redundancy | repletion | satiety | saturation | saturation point | spate | spring tide | superabundance | superfluity | superflux | supersaturation | surcharge | surfeit | surplus | surplusage See Also | excess | excessiveness | inordinateness | redundance | redundancy Plethora In Webster's Dictionary \Pleth"o*ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to be or become
full. Cf. {Pleonasm}.]
1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood
vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of
the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in
quantity; hyper[ae]mia; -- opposed to an[ae]mia.
2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination.
--Jeffrey.
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