large indefinite amount vs upper limit

upper limit vs large indefinite amount

large indefinite amount and upper limit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
large indefinite amount	Yes	No	No	No
upper limit	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, upper limit is a hyponym of large indefinite amount; that is, upper limit is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than large indefinite amount:

large indefinite amount: an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
upper limit: the largest possible quantity

Other hyponyms of large indefinite amount include chunk, busload, barrels, batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, battalion, large number, multitude, pack, plurality, all get out, billy-ho, billyo, billyoh, boatload, carload, shipload, infinitude, maximum, mile, bazillion, billion, gazillion, jillion, million, trillion, zillion, much, myriad, ocean, sea, ream, small fortune, dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads.

large indefinite amount (noun)	upper limit (noun)
an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude	the limit on the upper (or northernmost) side of something
	the largest possible quantity

Difference between large indefinite amount and upper limit

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