Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Miscellaneous items or written works collected together.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A collection of miscellaneous matters of any kind; specifically, a collection of miscellaneous literary compositions; miscellanies.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.
- n. Plural form of miscellaneum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Etymologies
- From Latin miscellus ("mixed"), from misceō ("to mix"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin miscellānea, from neuter pl. of miscellāneus, miscellaneous; see miscellaneous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But I should misinform you grossly if I left you to infer that his collections were a heap of incoherent 'miscellanea'.”
“He also wrote cookbooks and other books about food including a miscellanea, "Lang's Compendium of Culinary Trivia and Nonsense.”
The Wall Street Journal: Gastronomic Guru Restyled Food Scene
“Excellent link to Mike Holliday's site: makes me want to chase down all these miscellanea.”
“Too much meta isn't nearly as fun as too much miscellanea.”
“I do have plans for Actual Posts on things like trilogy structure, romances I've been on a Jennifer Crusie binge and etcetera miscellanea--next week!”
“So I wonder if we've found the origin, or something close to the origin, in Dr. Robinson's miscellanea.”
“I've just released the burden of that guilt and embraced my inner miscellanea!”
“I browsed idly through the miscellanea, keeping half an ear tuned to the argument going on behind me.”
“Aside from a few names, codewords, and other miscellanea of day-to-day Al Qaeda activities, precious little has emerged from detention and torture -- let alone one of those legendary ticking time bombs or secret hostage locations.”
Frank Naif: Drones, Torture, Detention Show What US Intelligence Isn't Doing
“It will not work as Biden is on guard for non-issue miscellanea.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘miscellanea’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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To Define Collections
pasticcio, olio, compendium, assemblage, menagerie, miscellanea, farrago, hotchpot, omnium-gatherum, cento, gallimaufry, anthology and 2 more...
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Intertanglement
A list of bejumble and minglement.
intertanglement, mixture, commingle, commixtion, immixture, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, intermixture, medley, minglement, mingle-mangle, blendure and 60 more...
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Collections
Have I made this list before? Has someone else collected these words together? I can't remember, so I'm just going to start storing some things here.
collection, omnium-gatherum, sylloge, antiphonary, anthology, bestiary, cartulary, dossier, sampler, assortment, variety, hodgepodge and 65 more...
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Some new Wordie words this week
Don't tell them they are not real--they might cry.
glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1687 more...
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academic words
fancy words popular in academe
pecuniary, numismatic, lacuna, dearth, antepenultimate, palimpset, ennui, hoi polloi, prolix, jejune, miscellanea, desiderata and 3 more...
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