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Webster 1913 Edition
Superfluity
Suˊper-flu′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Superfluities
(#)
. 1.
A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance;
as, a
superfluity
of water; a superfluity
of wealth.A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled
superfluity
. Suckling.
2.
The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
“By a superfluity abominable.” Chaucer.
3.
Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
Syn. – Superabundance; excess; redundancy.
Webster 1828 Edition
Superfluity
SUPERFLU'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Superabundance; a greater quantity than is wanted; as a superfluity of water or provisions.2.
Something that is beyond what is wanted; something rendered unnecessary by its abundance. Among the superfluities of life we seldom number the abundance of money.Definition 2024
superfluity
superfluity
English
Noun
superfluity (plural superfluities)
- The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness; in excess or overabundance.
- Something superfluous, as a luxury.
- (rare) Collective noun for a group of nuns.
- 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266:
- These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.
- 2011, Sam Cullen, The Odd Bunnies, unnumbered page:
- Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.
- 2012, Beth Yarnall, Rush, Crimson Romance (2012), ISBN 9781440554223, unnumbered page:
- […] That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.”
- 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266:
Translations
quality or state of being superfluous
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