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

To these controversies belong his Pierces supererogation, Lond.

From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas

Henry A. Clapp has recently shown this so clearly that it may seem a work of supererogation to again discuss the matter.

From Time in the Play of Hamlet by Vining, Edward P.

Peeping cautiously through the doorway he saw Miss Mercy alone in the bar, perfunctorily at work upon a task of supererogation which the paternal wisdom had set her.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

That no one had done so was probably due in most part to an impression that to carry such information were work of supererogation....

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph

supererogation

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