SUPERFLUITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superfluity mean? 

• SUPERFLUITY (noun)
  The noun SUPERFLUITY has 1 sense:

1. extreme excess

  Familiarity information: SUPERFLUITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERFLUITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme excess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

embarrassment; overplus; plethora; superfluity

Context example:

an embarrassment of riches

Hypernyms ("superfluity" is a kind of...):

excess; excessiveness; inordinateness (immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "superfluity"):

redundance; redundancy (the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded)

Derivation:

superfluous (more than is needed, desired, or required)

 Context examples 

He would not want me to love him; and if I showed the feeling, he would make me sensible that it was a superfluity, unrequired by him, unbecoming in me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Your kindness and patience can never be forgotten, your indefatigable patience in trying to make it possible for him to learn his part—in trying to give him a brain which nature had denied—to mix up an understanding for him out of the superfluity of your own!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)