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prettygoodword) wrote2013-06-20 07:24 am
prettygoodword) wrote2013-06-20 07:24 am
plethora
plethora (PLETH-er-uh) - n., more than is needed or desired, overabundance, excess.
A surfeit, a glut, a superfluity -- and a plethora of other synonyms. Borrowed around 1540 from Medieval Latin, from Greek plēthōrē, fullness, from plēthein, to grow full. (I cannot resist passing on the Melville quote about "a short fat man with a plethora of cravat round his neck".)
---L.
A surfeit, a glut, a superfluity -- and a plethora of other synonyms. Borrowed around 1540 from Medieval Latin, from Greek plēthōrē, fullness, from plēthein, to grow full. (I cannot resist passing on the Melville quote about "a short fat man with a plethora of cravat round his neck".)
---L.