Hypertext Webster Gateway: "plethora"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Plethora \Pleth"o*ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to be or become
full. Cf. {Pleonasm}.]
1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood
vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of
the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in
quantity; hyper[ae]mia; -- opposed to an[ae]mia.

2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.

He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination.
--Jeffrey.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

plethora
n : extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: {nimiety},
{overplus}, {superfluity}, {embarrassment}]


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