plethora
- overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- Pathology Archaic. a morbid condition due to excess of red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood.
Origin of plethora
Related Words for plethora
profusion, overabundance, deluge, glut, plenty, surfeit, surplus, superabundance, overmuch, much, flood, superfluity, overflow, overkill, manyExamples from the Web for plethora
Contemporary Examples of plethora
There should be a plethora of four-letter words flying around the Veep set this morning.
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Where there was a plethora of strong women, instead of just, like, Kristen Wiig doing every sketch each week.
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October 31, 2014
Like the best pop stars, Swift has borrowed from a plethora of genres and influences.
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Within hours of the pictures ending up online, a plethora of articles were written.
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During the mid-to-late 1980s, he went on an absolute tear, helming a plethora of irresistible entertainments.
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Historical Examples of plethora
That would be worse, Lawrence, for the damp might cause a plethora.
The Memoires of Casanova, CompleteJacques Casanova de Seingalt
Man produces gestalts, and cuts form out of the plethora of nothingness.
WarmRobert Sheckley
Your present plethora of acquirements will soon cure itself.
Medical EssaysOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The intestines of our mountains are gorged with precious ore to plethora.
Roughing ItMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Taxation is necessary just as blood-letting is necessary in plethora.
Comic ArithmeticAnonymous
plethora
- superfluity or excess; overabundance
- pathol obsolete a condition caused by dilation of superficial blood vessels, characterized esp by a reddish face
Word Origin for plethora
Word Origin and History for plethora
1540s, a medical word for "excess of body fluid," from Late Latin plethora, from Greek plethore "fullness," from plethein "be full" (see pleio-). Figurative meaning "too-muchness, overfullness in any respect" is first recorded 1700. Related: Plethoric.
plethora
(plĕth′ər-ə)- An excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area.
- An excess of any of the body fluids.