Superabundance vs Plethora - What's the difference?
superabundance | plethora | Related terms |
An extreme abundance; abundance to a vast degree that seems almost excessive.
:We have not merely an abundance, but a superabundance of enemies at this time; they will need to stand in line to disagree with us.
(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
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(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Pronounced: .
Superabundance is a related term of plethora.
As nouns the difference between superabundance and plethora
is that superabundance is an extreme abundance; abundance to a vast degree that seems almost excessive while plethora is (usually|followed by of) an excessive amount or number; an abundance.superabundance
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Noun
(en-noun)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: .