Plethora
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We could start a "word of the day association" spam game here 
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But this would imply a negative connotation, like 'too much', wouldn't it?
In Greek (where the word comes from), plethora means more than 'a lot of', similarly to 'abundance', but not excessive or overabundant. This is also what I assumed the correct usage of the word is in English.
In Greek (where the word comes from), plethora means more than 'a lot of', similarly to 'abundance', but not excessive or overabundant. This is also what I assumed the correct usage of the word is in English.
New Oxford American Dictionary:
Pleth-o-ra
n. (A plethora of) an excess of (something): a plethora of committees and subcommittees
<special usage> [medicine] an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.
<Derivatives> plethoric (adj., archaic)
<origin> mid 16th cent. (in the medical sense): via late Latin from Greek Plethore (dashes over the e, or, and e), from plethein (dash over the first e) 'be full'.
Pleth-o-ra
n. (A plethora of) an excess of (something): a plethora of committees and subcommittees
<special usage> [medicine] an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.
<Derivatives> plethoric (adj., archaic)
<origin> mid 16th cent. (in the medical sense): via late Latin from Greek Plethore (dashes over the e, or, and e), from plethein (dash over the first e) 'be full'.
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