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Succession vs Plethora - What's the difference?

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Succession is a related term of plethora.


As nouns the difference between succession and plethora

is that succession is an act of following in sequence while plethora is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance.

succession

English

Noun

  • An act of following in sequence.
  • A sequence of things in order.
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    • , year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England gave away six penalties in the first 15 minutes and were lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch, but Kvirikashvili missed two very makeable penalties in quick succession as Georgia were unable to take advantage of significant territorial advantage.}}
  • A passing of royal powers.
  • A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
  • (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.
    • (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * successional

    Related terms

    * successive

    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

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