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/ˌɒm.nɪəmˈɡæ.ðə.ɹəm/ · noun
A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things..
But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums.
We live in the era of Omnium-Gatherum; all the world's a museum, and men and women are its students. To design any building in England nowadays is therefore to work under the eye, so to speak, of the Society of Antiquaries.
Use omnium-gatherum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Omnium-gatherum means A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things..
Common synonyms include bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; and soon the stream rose, and rushed down, higher and higher, and fouler and fouler, full of beetles, and sticks; and straws, and worms, and addle-eggs, and wood-lice, and leeches, and odds and ends, and omnium-gatherums, and this, that, and the other, enough to fill nine museums.
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