Superfluity

//ˌsuː.pəˈfluː.ɪ.ti// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness. countable, uncountable

    "Each stores has its own storekeeper, a clerk who specializes in organizing his department so that there is not a superfluity of one article and a scarcity of another."

  2. 2
    extreme excess wordnet
  3. 3
    Something superfluous, as a luxury. countable, uncountable

    "As they had almost all the conveniencies of life within themselves, they seldom visited towns or cities in search of superfluity."

  4. 4
    Collective noun for a group of nuns. countable, rare, uncountable

    "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."

Etymology

From superflu(ous) + -ity, Old French superfluite, from Medieval Latin superfluitas, from Latin superfluus.

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