Definition of "miscellany"

miscellany

/mɪˈsɛl.ə.ni/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural miscellanies
1. (countable) An assortment of miscellaneous items.
2. (countable) A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.
3. (uncountable) The condition of being miscellaneous, of being a hodgepodge.
  Quotations
  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.
  1896 March, Louis H. Sullivan, “The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered”, in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, volume 57, page 407