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plethora noun [ ˈplɛθ(ə)rə ]

• a large or excessive amount of something.
• "a plethora of committees and subcommittees"
Similar: excess, abundance, overabundance, superfluity, surfeit, profusion, more than enough, too many, too much, enough and to spare, superabundance, surplus, glut, flood, torrent, deluge, embarrassment, nimiety,
Opposite: dearth, lack,
• an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.
Origin: mid 16th century (in the medical sense): via late Latin from Greek plēthōrē, from plēthein ‘be full’.


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