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語源

Borrowed from French miscellanées, from Latin mīscellānea, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misceō (“to mix”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /mɪˈsɛləni/, /ˈmɪsələni/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɪsəleɪni/, /mɪˈsɛləni/

名詞

miscellany (countable and uncountable, plural miscellanies)

1. (countable) An assortment of miscellaneous items.

   Synonyms: miscellanea, congeries, smorgasbord; see also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

2. (countable) A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.

   Synonym: reader

   a monthly miscellany of literature

3. (uncountable) The condition of being miscellaneous, of being a hodgepodge.

   Synonym: miscellaneousness

   • 1896 March, Louis H. Sullivan, “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered”, in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, volume 57, page 407:

     All of these critics and theorists agree, however, positively, unequivocally, in this, […] that miscellany is abhorrent to their sense; that the sixteen-story building must not consist of sixteen separate, distinct, and unrelated buildings piled one upon the other until the top of the pile is reached.

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