miscellany
Other forms: miscellanies
Miscellany is a collection of different sorts of things. If organization is not one of your strong points, your purse may contain a miscellany of surprising items.
Miscellany comes from the Latin for "mix," and a miscellany is a mixture of things. If you don't clean your car out very often, there may be a miscellany of relics in the backseat: a flip flop left over from your last trip to the beach, a few stale French fries, your last report card, and maybe a magazine or two.
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a collection containing a variety of sorts of thingssynonyms: assortment, medley, miscellanea, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, varietytypes:grab bagan assortment of miscellaneous itemsrangea variety of different things or activitiesselectionan assortment of things from which a choice can be madefarrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbaga motley assortment of thingsalphabet soupa confusing assortmentsampleran assortment of various samplesbanda range of frequencies between two limitstype of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.synonyms: florilegium, garlandtype of:anthologya collection of selected literary passages
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