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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Races, you see, were not in a class with graduations; they were optional, works of supererogation.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

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

A complete work of supererogation; for the next moment a voice speaking loudly made Charley shrink back, and press his crush-hat down over his eyes.

From By Birth a Lady by Fenn, George Manville

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.

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