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Plethora vs Hyperregulate - What's the difference?

plethora | hyperregulate |

As a noun plethora

is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance.

As a verb hyperregulate is

regulate to an excessive degree; stifle with a plethora of rules.

plethora

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
    • The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
  • * Jeffrey
    • He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
  • (medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.

    • 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, slew

    Related terms

    * plethoric

    See also

    * myriad

    References

    * “ plethora]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
    Pronounced: .

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hyperregulate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hyper-regulate

    Verb

    (hyperregulat)
  • Regulate to an excessive degree; stifle with a plethora of rules.
  • * 2000 : United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Internet Freedom Act and Internet Growth and Development Act of 1999: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1686 and H.R. 1685 , part 2, page 48] ([[w:United States Government Printing Office, United States Government Printing Office])
    • If the FCC truly believes there are going to be plenty of broadband options soon, a “no-opoly,” why is the FCC planning to hyperregulate the local telcos' DSL spectrum and DSL offerings?
  • * 2005 : Maryfrances Ruth Porter, The Exploration of Mechanisms Linking Adolescent Attachment Organization and Friendship Competence , page 12] ([[w:University of Virginia, University of Virginia])
    • Teens with insecure-dismissing states of mind, as well as those who hyperregulate /deactivate their attachment system and defensively exclude […]
  • * 2008 : Gregory S. Parks [ed.], Julianne Malveaux [foreword], and Marc Morial [afterword], Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun , page 331] ([http://www.kentuckypress.com/viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group=2&ID=1449 University Press of Kentucky; ISBN 9780813124919)
    • These nonblack members are trying to synthesize the tension of an anti-discrimination logic, a multicultural yearning for diversity, and a simultaneous defense of BGLOs’ core “blackness”. How do the multicultural nationalists navigate this tricky terrain? They hyperregulate other nonblack aspirants’ access to their BGLOs.
  • (biology) To regulate (salt content etc) to a greater than normal degree

    • Related terms

    * hyperregulation * hyperregulative (rare) * hyperregulator * hyperregulatory * hyporegulate