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Copious vs Multifarious - What's the difference?

copious | multifarious |

As adjectives the difference between copious and multifarious

is that copious is great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale while multifarious is having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.

copious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3. ยง 18.
    • These loose hints I have thrown together, in order to excite the curiosity of philosophers, and beget a suspicion at least, if not a full persuasion, that this subject is very copious ,
  • Having an abundant supply.
  • Full of thought, information, or matter; exuberant in words, expression, or style.

    • Related terms

    * copiously * copiousness

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    multifarious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
  • * 2005 , .
    • It is divided into parts that are too small and multifarious .
  • (legal, of lawsuits) in which a party or a cause of action has been improperly or wrongfully joined together in the same suit, as in a misjoinder. This may be a result of a joinder of unrelated, distinct, and independent parties or matters.'>citation

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