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Assortment vs Multitude - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between assortment and multitude

is that assortment is a collection of varying but related items while multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.

assortment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collection of varying but related items.
    • This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

    Synonyms

    * diversity, Whitman's sampler * See also

    multitude

    English

    (wikipedia multitude)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
  • *
  • The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
  • * Pilate, wishing to please the multitude , released Barabbas to them.

    • Synonyms

    * hantel/hantle

    Derived terms

    * multitudinous