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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | embarrassment of riches, glut, nimiety, overflow, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, too much* |
| Antonyms: | lack, need, scarcity, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | overflow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flood, inundation |
| Synonyms: | advance, cataclysm, cataract, congestion, deluge, discharge, encroachment, enforcement, engorgement, excess, exuberance, flash flood, flooding, infringement, niagara, overabundance, overcrowding, overkill, overmuch, overproduction, plethora, pour, propulsion, push, redundancy, spate, spill, spillover, submergence, submersion, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, torrent |
| Main Entry: | plethora |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | deluge, flood, glut, many, much, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, plenty, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
| Antonyms: | few, lack, little, need, rarity, scarcity, want |
| Main Entry: | surfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | bellyful, glut, overabundance, overflow, overfullness, overindulgence, overkill, overmuch, overplus, plenitude, plethora, profusion, remainder, repletion, satiety, satisfaction, saturation, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, up to here |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
| Antonyms: | base, core, lack, main, necessity, need, want |
| Main Entry: | lavishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, excess, overabundance, plenitude, plentifulness, profuseness |
| Main Entry: | redundancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
| Synonyms: | excess, overabundance, prolixity, repetition, superfluity, tautology, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | superfluity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | surplus |
| Synonyms: | abundance, excess, overabundance, overplus, plenty, plethora |
| Main Entry: | redundancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition |
| Synonyms: | attrition, circumlocution, copiosity, macrology, overabundance, periphrasis, pleonasm, profusion, prolixity, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity |
| Main Entry: | excessiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overplus, plethora, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit |
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