Plethora

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Plethora \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.


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     2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
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              He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination.
                                                    --Jeffrey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  plethora
       n : extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: {overplus},
            {superfluity}, {embarrassment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "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