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Definitions

supererogation

NOUN
excess
Synonyms
STRONGEST
exuberance glut overkill surplus waste
STRONG
balance by-product enough exorbitance fat fulsomeness inundation lavishness leavings leftover luxuriance nimiety overflow overload overmuch overrun oversupply overweight plenty plethora profusion redundance redundancy refuse remainder residue rest spare superabundance superfluity surfeit wastefulness
WEAK
overdose recrement the limit too much too much of a good thing
Antonyms
STRONGEST
insufficiency lack need want
STRONG
base core few little scarcity
WEAK
dearth deficiency deprivation economy frugality moderation poverty privation shortcoming
NOUN
redundancy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
attrition
STRONG
circumlocution overabundance periphrasis pleonasm profusion prolixity superabundance superfluity tautology verbiage verboseness verbosity
WEAK
copiosity macrology
Antonyms
STRONG
conciseness lack
NOUN
superfluousness
Synonyms
WEAK
balance by-product embarrassment enough excessiveness exorbitance extravagance extravagancy extravagantness exuberance fat fulsomeness glut inundation lavishness leavings leftover luxuriance nimiety overabundance overdose overflow overkill overload overmuch overrun oversupply overweight plenty plethora profusion recrement redundance redundancy refuse remainder residue rest spare superabundance superfluity surfeit surplus the limit too much too much of a good thing waste wastefulness

Example Sentences

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For any organization to have notified him of his nomination would have been supererogation.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, after what he had seen that night, he reflected that it was perhaps a work of supererogation to build a barrier between Judith and Throckmorton.

From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot

This, to speak of it forbearingly, may be safely catalogued among the works of supererogation.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

To "prove" the "equation of exchange," however, is, first, a work of supererogation, and, second, in no sense a proof of the quantity theory.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.

Where, however, the money is money which they are glad to get in any case, the legal tender quality is a matter of supererogation.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.