Superfluity
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 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 extreme excess wordnet
- 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 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."
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From superflu(ous) + -ity, Old French superfluite, from Medieval Latin superfluitas, from Latin superfluus.
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