miscellany/mɪˈsɛləni/EtymologyBorrowed from French miscellanées, from Latin mīscellānea, from miscellus (“mixed”), from misceō (“to mix”).miscellany means an assortment of miscellaneous items. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 65 out of 100.nounAn assortment of miscellaneous items.A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.“a monthly miscellany of literature”The condition of being miscellaneous, of being a hodgepodge.“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.”