Assortment vs Hodgepodge - What's the difference?
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A collection of varying but related items.
A collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.
* 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
Assortment is a related term of hodgepodge.
As nouns the difference between assortment and hodgepodge
is that assortment is a collection of varying but related items while hodgepodge is a collection of miscellaneous things; a jumble.assortment
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 alsohodgepodge
English
Alternative forms
* hodge-podgeNoun
- His latest sculpture is a hodgepodge''' of kitchen clutter and scrap glued together. In fact, all his recent pieces have been similar '''hodgepodges .
- Man's life is but vain, for 'tis subject to pain, / And sorrow, and short as a bubble; / 'Tis a hodge-podge of business, and money, and care, / And care, and money, and trouble.