Word Meanings - PLETHORA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia. 2. State of being overfull;

Additional info about word: PLETHORA

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; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia. 2. State of being overfull; excess; superabundance. He labors under a plethora of wit and imagination. Jeffrey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PLETHORA)

• Congestion
• Congeries
• accumulation
• glomeration
• redundancy
• plethora
• Surfeit
• Superabundance
• excess
• glut
• nimiety

Related words: (words related to PLETHORA)

• GLOMERATION
  1. The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration. 2. That which is formed into a ball; a ball. Bacon.
• SURFEIT-WATER
  Water for the cure of surfeits. Locke.
• PLETHORA
  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; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia. 2. State of being overfull;
• SURFEIT
  arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See 1. Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick
• CONGESTION
  Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ ; local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. (more info) 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. The
• SURFEITER
  One who surfeits. Shak.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• CONGERIES
  A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.
• ACCUMULATION
  The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees , the taking of several together,
• NIMIETY
  State of being in excess. There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. Coleridge.
• SUPERABUNDANCE
  The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.
• AGGLOMERATION
  1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton. 2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
• REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY
  Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant
• CONGLOMERATION
  The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass. Bacon.