Myriad vs Amount - What's the difference?
myriad | amount |
A countless number or multitude (of specified things)
(modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 131:
* 2011' April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, "Researchers at Washington U. have 'itch' to cure problem", ''West End Word'', ' 40 (7), p. 8:
(modifying a plural noun) Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous
* 2013 September 28, , "
The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
* 2001 , Gisella Gori, Towards an EU right to education , page 195:
To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between myriad and amount
is that myriad is while amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english).As an adjective myriad
is (modifying a singular noun) multifaceted, having innumerable elements.As a verb amount is
to total or evaluate.myriad
English
(wikipedia myriad)Noun
(en noun)- Earth hosts a myriad of animals.
Usage notes
Used as an adjective (see below), 'myriad' requires neither an article before it nor a preposition after. Because of this, some consider the usage described in sense 2 above, where 'myriad' acts as part of a nominal (or noun) group (that is, "a myriad of animals"), to be tautological.Adjective
(-)- one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
- "As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad ."
- Earth hosts myriad animals.
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
See also
* plethora ----amount
English
(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
Derived terms
* principal amount * notional amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.