Noun: plethora ple-thu-ru
- Extreme excess
"The plethora of applications for the job overwhelmed the hiring committee";
- overplus, superfluity, embarrassment
- Great abundance; a more than sufficient quantity
"a plethora of options";
- profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia
Derived forms: plethoras
Type of: abundance, copiousness, excess, excessiveness, inordinateness, teemingness
Encyclopedia: Plethora