plethora Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun extreme excess
    embarrassment; overplus; superfluity.
    • an embarrassment of riches

WordNet

Pleth"o*ra noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to be or become full. Cf. Pleonasm.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913