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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
plethora
n : extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: overplus,
superfluity, embarrassment]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
embarrassment, overplus, superfluity
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