Myriad vs Incalculable - What's the difference?
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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, , "
(not comparable) Very great or numerous.
(not comparable, mathematics) Impossible to calculate.
(comparable) Of a person's mood or character, etc.: Impossible to predict.
Myriad is a related term of incalculable.
As adjectives the difference between myriad and incalculable
is that myriad is (modifying a singular noun) multifaceted, having innumerable elements while incalculable is (not comparable) very great or numerous.As a noun myriad
is .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 ----incalculable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The loss the National Library suffered from the fire is incalculable .
- He is incalculable when he's drunk. He can turn from an amiable person into a violent horror in a moment.