INORDINATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inordinateness mean? 

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

1. immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INORDINATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

excess; excessiveness; inordinateness

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

immoderateness; immoderation (the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation)

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

extravagance; extravagancy (the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth)

exorbitance; outrageousness (excessive excess)

embarrassment; overplus; plethora; superfluity (extreme excess)

Derivation:

inordinate (beyond normal limits)