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superfluity

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su·per·flu·i·ty  (spr-fl-t)
n. pl. su·per·flu·i·ties
1. The quality or condition of being superfluous.
2. Something superfluous: could do without such superfluities as a second car.
3. Overabundance; excess.
Superfluity of nuns: a company of nuns—Bk. of St. Albans, 1486.
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Noun1.superfluitysuperfluity - extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
overplus, plethora, embarrassment
excessiveness, inordinateness, excess - immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
redundance, redundancy - the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"


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Owing to occasional retrogressions, to still more frequent moral and intellectual stagnation, and to the extraordinary fecundity of the Criminal and Vagabond Classes, there is always a vast superfluity of individuals of the half degree and single degree class, and a fair abundance of Specimens up to 10 degrees.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
They must be born of my foolish fancy, for a man may stray so far into sentiment as to forget his immediate surroundings, and to give way to the superfluity of fond ardour with which his heart is charged.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Now will I pray meekly every discreet person that readeth or heareth this little treatise, to have my rude inditing for excused, and my superfluity of words, for two causes.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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