Plethora vs Gamut - What's the difference?
plethora | gamut |
(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
* Jeffrey
(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Pronounced: . A (normally) complete range.
* 19?? , (Dorothy Parker), review of (Katharine Hepburn) in the Broadway play (The Lake)
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
(music) All the notes in the musical scale.
All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.
As nouns the difference between plethora and gamut
is that plethora is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance while gamut is gamut (colour range available to a monitor or printer).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
Pronounced: .
Anagrams
* ----gamut
English
Noun
(en noun)- She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
- The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...