Synonyms of the word potpourri


POTPOURRIACCUMULATION - AGGREGATION - ASSEMBLAGE - ASSORTMENT - COLLECTION - COMPOSITION - ESSENCE - MEDLEY - MISCELLANEA - MISCELLANY - MIXTURE - MOTLEY - OPUS - PASTICHE - PERFUME - PIECE - SALMAGUNDI - SMORGASBORD - VARIETY

potpourri

  • n. A collection of various things; an assortment, mixed bag or motley.
  • n. An anthology of miscellaneous prose.
  • n. (music) A medley of songs or music.
  • n. A mixture of dried fragrant plant material, often in a decorative bowl, used to scent a room.

accumulation

  • n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
  • n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
  • n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
  • n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
  • n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
  • n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

aggregation

  • n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
  • n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
  • n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
  • n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
  • n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

assemblage

  • n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
  • n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
  • n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

assortment

  • n. A collection of varying but related items.

collection

  • n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
  • n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
  • n. The activity of collecting.
  • n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
  • n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
  • n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  • n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  • n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

composition

  • n. The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
  • n. The general makeup of a thing or person.
  • n. (obsolete) An agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities;…
  • n. (obsolete) An agreement to pay money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling.
  • n. (law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from…
  • n. A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
  • n. An essay.
  • n. (linguistics) The formation of compound words from separate words.
  • n. A work of music, literature or art.
  • n. (printing) Typesetting.
  • n. (mathematics) Applying a function to the result of another.
  • n. (obsolete) Consistency; accord; congruity.
  • n. Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
  • n. (painting, photography) The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

essence

  • n. The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
  • n. (philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
  • n. Constituent substance.
  • n. A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
  • n. A significant feature of something.
  • n. The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
  • n. Fragrance, a perfume.

medley

  • n. (now rare, archaic) Combat, fighting; a battle.
  • n. A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
  • n. (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
  • n. (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke,…
  • n. A cloth of mixed colours.
  • v. (music) To combine, to form a medley.

miscellanea

  • n. (countable) A miscellaneous collection of different things; a miscellany.
  • n. plural of miscellaneum.

miscellany

  • n. Miscellaneous items.
  • n. A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.

mixture

  • n. The act of mixing.
  • n. Something produced by mixing.
  • n. Something that consists of diverse elements.
  • n. A medicinal compound.
  • n. (South India) Chevda, Bombay mix.

motley

  • adj. Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous.
  • adj. Having many colours; variegated.
  • n. An incongruous mixture.
  • n. A jester's multicoloured clothes.
  • n. (by extension) A jester; a fool.

opus

  • n. A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published…
  • n. A work, especially of art.

pastiche

  • n. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
  • n. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
  • n. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
  • n. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines…
  • v. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.

perfume

  • n. A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a…
  • n. A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.
  • v. (transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

piece

  • n. A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
  • n. A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
  • n. (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished…
  • n. A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
  • n. An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
  • n. An artillery gun.
  • n. (US, colloquial) A gun.
  • n. (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
  • n. (Scotland, Ireland, Britain dialectal, US dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its…
  • n. (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
  • n. (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually…
  • n. (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
  • n. (baseball) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the…
  • n. (dated, sometimes derogatory) An individual; a person.
  • n. (obsolete) A castle; a fortified building.
  • n. (US) A pacifier.
  • n. (colloquial) A distance.
  • v. (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
  • v. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
  • v. (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.

salmagundi

  • n. A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
  • n. Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.

smorgasbord

  • n. A buffet with many small dishes.
  • n. (figuratively) A diverse collection of things.

variety

  • n. The quality of being varied; diversity.
  • n. A specific variation of something.
  • n. A number of different things.
  • n. A state of constant change.
  • n. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
  • n. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
  • n. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
  • n. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect,…
  • n. (algebra, esp. universal algebra) The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying…
  • n. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
  • n. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.

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