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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

In the animal kingdom, a surreptitious and supposititious supererogation.

From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert

This is such palpable nonsense that it would be a work of supererogation to prove its absurdity.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon

It is perhaps a work of supererogation for me after the lapse of three and a half centuries to endorse and verify the accuracy of that word picture of the buffalo.

From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska

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.