superfluousness

NOUN

excess

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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 supererogation superfluity surfeit surplus the limit too much too much of a good thing waste wastefulness

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You are familiar, I'm sure, with the institution of the gift shop: a business that exists entirely to sell useless treats and temptations, an ode to capitalistic superfluousness.

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2022

As investigators picked through the wreckage in Manhattan, Arlington and Shanksville, Pa., the idea of a 9/11 novel sounded obscene in its redundancy, its obviousness, its galling superfluousness.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2021

The whimsical superfluousness of such stories becomes in the aggregate ninety-nine chapters of “Life,” a massive encyclopedia of the off-kilter quotidian.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2019

And Hollywood’s ever more polarized face-off with him has imbued the season with a heightened sense of both superfluousness and purpose.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2017

Alvan, looking indolently royal and royally roguish, quoted a verse that speaks of the superfluousness of a faithless lady's vowing bite: 'The kisses were in the course of things, The bite was a needless addition.'

From The Tragic Comedians — Complete by Meredith, George

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