superfluity

superfluity
Synonyms and related words:
abundance, acres, amenity, amplitude, bags, barrels, bedizenment, bravery, bushel, chiffon, clinquant, cloud of words, copiousness, countlessness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, excess, expletive, extravagance, exuberance, fat, featherbedding, fecundity, fertility, festoons, filling, finery, flood, fluency, folderol, foofaraw, formlessness, frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuss, gaiety, gaudery, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, glut, gush, gushing, load, logorrhea, luxury, macrology, mass, mountain, much, multitude, needlessness, numerousness, ocean, oceans, ornamentation, outpour, overabundance, overadornment, overage, overflow, overflowing, overkill, overlap, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, padding, palilogy, paste, payroll padding, peck, pinchbeck, plenitude, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, quantities, quantity, rampancy, rankness, redundance, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, sea, spate, superabundance, superfluousness, superflux, supersaturation, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swarming, talkativeness, tautology, teeming, teemingness, tinsel, tirade, tons, trappings, trickery, trumpery, unnecessariness, verbosity, volume, world, worlds

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  • Superfluity — Su per*flu i*ty, n.; pl. {Superfluities}. [L. superfluit[ e], L. superfluitas. See {Superfluous}.] 1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. [1913 Webster] A quiet mediocrity is… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • superfluity — index balance (amount in excess), boom (prosperity), exaggeration, plethora, redundancy, remainder (remaining part), surfeit …   Law dictionary

  • superfluity — late 14c., from O.Fr. superfluite (12c.), from M.L. superfluitas, from superfluus (see SUPERFLUOUS (Cf. superfluous)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • superfluity — *excess, surplus, surplusage, overplus Analogous words: overflowing or overflow, teeming, swarming (see TEEM): exuberance, profusion, lavishness, prodigality (see corresponding adjectives at PROFUSE) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • superfluity — [so͞o΄pərflo͞o′ə tē] n. pl. superfluities [ME superfluite < OFr superfluité < L superfluitas] 1. the state or quality of being superfluous 2. a quantity or number beyond what is needed; excess; superabundance 3. something superfluous; thing …   English World dictionary

  • superfluity — [[t]su͟ːpə(r)flu͟ːɪti[/t]] superfluities N COUNT: usu N of n If there is a superfluity of something, there is more of it than is needed. [FORMAL] The city has gone from a shortage to a superfluity of five star hotels …   English dictionary

  • superfluity — su|per|flu|i|ty [ˌsu:pəˈflu:ıti US pər ] n formal a superfluity of sth a larger amount of something than is necessary …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • superfluity — noun formal a superfluity of a larger amount of something than is necessary …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • superfluity — superfluous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ unnecessary, especially through being more than enough. DERIVATIVES superfluity noun (pl. superfluities) superfluously adverb. ORIGIN Latin superfluus, from fluere to flow …   English terms dictionary

  • superfluity — noun (plural ties) Etymology: Middle English superfluitee, from Anglo French superfluité, from Late Latin superfluitat , superfluitas, from Latin superfluus Date: 14th century 1. a. excess, oversupply b. something unnecessary or superfluous 2.… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • superfluity — /sooh peuhr flooh i tee/, n., pl. superfluities. 1. the state of being superfluous. 2. a superabundant or excessive amount. 3. something superfluous, as a luxury. [1350 1400; ME superfluite < OF < L superfluitas. See SUPERFLUOUS, ITY] * * * …   Universalium

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