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Plethora

Plethora Meaning & Definition
Plethora Definition And Meaning

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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