superfluity

Example Sentences

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Alongside the Spanish colonial homes, the scene is a picturesque look into wealth, opulence and superfluity that only a select few Angelenos can afford.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025

A group of crows is a murder; pandas, an embarrassment; nuns, a superfluity — a term that dates to the Middle Ages, when nunneries were overcrowded, lice-ridden and destitute.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021

Under low light, these faded, wispy clippings from the cutting-room floor suggest a superfluity of ideas that might have supplied a lifetime of inspiration to other artists.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

Partly, I think, because Miller treats his story line as Max would treat his car—stripping out superfluity and softness, in the interest of pure speed.

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2015

The desire to be just and equal was present; the one thing wanting was a due sense of the difference between superfluity and need.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert