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multiplicity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of multiplicity

1 a considerable amount
  • a multiplicity of suggestions for turning the company around
Synonyms of multiplicity

abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, loads, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to multiplicity

epidemic, plague, rash

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood, overflow

army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng
Phrases Synonymous with multiplicity

all kinds (of), quite a bit
Near Antonyms of multiplicity

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

smatter, smattering
Antonyms of multiplicity

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, tad, touch, trace
2 the quality or state of being composed of many different elements or types
  • Shakespeare's works seem to encompass the full multiplicity of human experience.
Synonyms of multiplicity

assortment, diverseness, diversity, heterogeneity, heterogeneousness, manifoldness, miscellaneousness, multifariousness, variety, variousness
Words Related to multiplicity

disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, otherness, unlikeness
Near Antonyms of multiplicity

homogeneity, homogeneousness, likeness, sameness, similarity

fewness, paucity

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