Nimiety
/nɪˈmaɪ ɪ ti/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 State of being in excess, more than is needed. countable, uncountable
"June 2, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk There is a nimiety, - a too-muchness - in all Germans."
- 2 a quantity much larger than is needed wordnet
Example
More examples"June 2, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk There is a nimiety, - a too-muchness - in all Germans."
Etymology
Latin nimietās, from nimius (“excessive”) and nimis (“excessively”).