superfluousness (noun)

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• superfluousness — noun see superfluous …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• superfluousness — noun The state or quality of being superfluous …   Wiktionary

• superfluousness — noun see superfluous …   Useful english dictionary

• superfluousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: embarrassment, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superabundance,… …   English dictionary for students

• superfluous — [su: pə:flʊəs] adjective unnecessary, especially through being more than enough. Derivatives superfluity noun su:pə flu:ɪti (plural superfluities). superfluously adverb superfluousness noun Origin …   English new terms dictionary

• superfluous — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin superfluus, literally, running over, from superfluere to overflow, from super + fluere to flow more at fluid Date: 15th century 1. a. exceeding what is sufficient or necessary ; extra b. not needed… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• superfluous — adjective formal more than is needed or wanted; unnecessary: We could all see what was going on, so the commentary was superfluous. superfluously adverb superfluousness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• superfluous — /suˈpɜfluəs / (say sooh perfloohuhs) adjective 1. being over and above what is sufficient or required. 2. unnecessary or needless. 3. Obsolete lavish or extravagant. {Middle English, from Latin superfluus overflowing} –superfluously, adverb… …  

• balance — I (amount in excess) noun carry over, excess, extra, leftover, margin, oddments, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, oversupply, plus, reliquus, remainder, remaining portion, remains, remnant, residual, residual portion, residue, residuum,… …   Law dictionary

• exaggeration — I noun addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, boast, brag, caricature, disproportion, distortion, embellishment, embroidery, enlargement, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, expansion, extravagance, extravagant statement, extremes,… …   Law dictionary

• plethora — I noun abundance, accumulation, amplitude, congestion, deluge, engorgement, excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, flood, full measure, fullness, glut, great quantity, heap, impletion, inundation, load, margin, nimiety, overabundance, overflow,… …   Law dictionary