Supervacaneously
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In a way that is supervacaneous; needlessly; redundantly; superfluously.
"1879, William T, Harris, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume XIII, To Kant, the multiple connected with the house is quite as objective as the multiple connected with the ship ; but that he attributes to the category of quantity, and not, laboriously and supervacaneously, like Schopenhauer, to the various causal relations of the eye in movement."
Example
More examples"1879, William T, Harris, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume XIII, To Kant, the multiple connected with the house is quite as objective as the multiple connected with the ship ; but that he attributes to the category of quantity, and not, laboriously and supervacaneously, like Schopenhauer, to the various causal relations of the eye in movement."
Etymology
From supervacaneous + -ly.
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