Preponderance vs Plethora - What's the difference?
preponderance | plethora |
Excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.
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* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 168:
(obsolete) The excess of weight of that part of a cannon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
The greater portion of the weight.
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The majority.
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(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
* Jeffrey
(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Pronounced: .
As nouns the difference between preponderance and plethora
is that preponderance is excess or superiority of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing while plethora is an excessive amount or number; an abundance.preponderance
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Alternative forms
*Noun
- In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europe, and had restored the equilibrium which the preponderance of one power had destroyed.
- But even less disgruntled observers have insisted that pain and un-pleasure are more common in dreams than pleasure: for instance, Scholz (1893, 57), Volkelt (1875, 80), and others. Indeed two ladies, Florence Hallam and Sarah Weed (1896, 499), have actually given statistical expression, based on a study of their own dreams, to the preponderance of unpleasure in dreaming.
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* *plethora
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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: .