Outpouring vs Plethora - What's the difference?
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The sudden flowing of a large amount of something.
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* 2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
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(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Pronounced: .
Outpouring is a related term of plethora.
As nouns the difference between outpouring and plethora
is that outpouring is the sudden flowing of a large amount of something while plethora is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance.outpouring
English
Noun
(en noun)Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- The protests rank among the largest outpourings of dissent since the nation’s military dictatorship ended in 1985.
London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- Great Britain has collected its first gold medal of the London Games after Heather Stanning and Helen Glover won the coxless pairs with a stunning performance that will spark a mass outpouring of celebration and relief across the country.
plethora
English
Noun
(en noun)- The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
- He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
Quotations
* 1849 , *: I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent. * 1927 , (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction) *: Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries ..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.Synonyms
* glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slewSee also
* myriadReferences
* “plethora]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
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