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Plethora vs Lots - What's the difference?

plethora | lots |

As nouns the difference between plethora and lots

is that plethora is an excessive amount or number; an abundance while lots is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

As an adverb lots is

a great deal; greatly; very much; tons; loads; a lot.

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: .

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    lots

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • English plurals
    • The men cast lots .
    They purchased all of the adjacent lots .
  • (colloquial) A lot; a great deal; tons; loads.
    • Lots of the ways you can help are really easy.
    Don't worry, my family has lots of money.
    She made lots of new friends.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (colloquial) A great deal; greatly; very much; tons; loads; a lot.
    • I feel lots better about it now that we've talked.
    I care lots about the humane treatment of animals.
    Last year I ran lots faster than him.

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