superfluity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: su=per=flu=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

superfluity, n. [L. superfluité, L. superfluitas. See Superfluous.].

•  A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.  [1913 Webster]

  "A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity."  [1913 Webster]
•  The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Superabundance; excess; redundancy.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

superfluity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the state of being superfluous.
2 a superfluous amount or thing.

Etymology

ME f. OF superfluit{eacute} f. LL superfluitas -tatis f. L superfluus: see SUPERFLUOUS

THESAURUS

superfluity

abundance, acres, amenity, amplitude, bags, barrels, bedizenment, bravery, bushel, chiffon, clinquant, cloud of words, copiousness, countlessness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, excess, expletive, extravagance, exuberance, fat, featherbedding, fecundity, fertility, festoons, filling, finery, flood, fluency, folderol, foofaraw, formlessness, frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuss, gaiety, gaudery, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, glut, gush, gushing, load, logorrhea, luxury, macrology, mass, mountain, much, multitude, needlessness, numerousness, ocean, oceans, ornamentation, outpour, overabundance, overadornment, overage, overflow, overflowing, overkill, overlap, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, padding, palilogy, paste, payroll padding, peck, pinchbeck, plenitude, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, prodigality, productivity, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, prolixity, quantities, quantity, rampancy, rankness, redundance, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, sea, spate, superabundance, superfluousness, superflux, supersaturation, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swarming, talkativeness, tautology, teeming, teemingness, tinsel, tirade, tons, trappings, trickery, trumpery, unnecessariness, verbosity, volume, world, worlds

ROGET THESAURUS

superfluity

Redundancy

N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.

Remainder

N remainder, residue, remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic, leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts, residuum, dregs, refuse, stubble, result, educt, fag-end, ruins, wreck, skeleton, stump, alluvium, surplus, overplus, excess, balance, complement, superplus, surplusage, superfluity, survival, survivance, remaining, left, left behind left over, residual, residuary, over, odd, unconsumed, sedimentary, surviving, net, exceeding, over and above, outlying, outstanding, cast off, superfluous.