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Today's Word "multifarious"

Having great diversity on

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multifarious \muhl-tuh-FAIR-ee-uhs\ (adjective) - Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified.

"Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongrous and independent denizens." -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'

 

Multifarious derives from Latin multifariam, "on many sides; in many places."


 

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