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Excess Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Excess?
[n] excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence"
[n] immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits [n] a quantity much larger than is needed [n] the state of being more than full [adj] more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" Synonyms | Synonyms for Excess: excessiveness | extra | inordinateness | overabundance | overindulgence | redundant | spare | supererogatory | superfluous | supernumerary | surfeit | surplus | surplus | surplusage | unnecessary | unneeded Related Terms | Find terms related to Excess: aggrandizement | amplification | ballyhoo | big talk | blowing up | burlesque | caricature | crapulence | crapulency | crapulousness | de trop | debauchery | dilatation | dilation | disentitlement | dispensable | dissipation | dissoluteness | drunkenness | empty claim | empty title | enhancement | enlargement | exaggerating | exaggeration | excessive | excessiveness | exorbitance | exorbitancy | expansion | expendable | expletive | extortionateness | extra | extravagance | extreme | false claim | fat | glut | gluttony | grandiloquence | gratuitous | heightening | huckstering | hyperbole | hyperbolism | immoderacy | immoderateness | immoderation | impropriety | in excess | inappropriateness | incontinence | indiscipline | indulgence | inflation | inordinacy | inordinateness | intemperance | intemperateness | inundation | invalid claim | lack of claim | leftover | leftovers | magnification | needless | nimiety | no claim | nonessential | outrageousness | overabundance | overage | overbalance | overdoing | overemphasis | overestimation | overflow | overflowing | overgrowth | overindulgence | overkill | overmeasure | overmuch | overpass | overplus | overproduction | overrun | overrunning | overspill | overspreading | overstatement | overstock | oversupply | pleonastic | plethora | plus | preposterousness | prodigality | profuseness | profusion | prolix | puffery | puffing up | redundancy | redundant | remaining | residual | Saturnalia | self-indulgence | self-restraint | sensationalism | spare | stretching | superabundance | supererogation | supererogatory | superfluity | superfluous | superiority | superlative | supernumerary | surfeit | surplus | surplusage | swinishness | tall talk | tautologic | tautologous | to spare | too much | too-muchness | touting | travesty | uncalled-for | unconscionableness | unconstraint | uncontrol | undeservedness | undeservingness | undueness | unentitledness | unessential | unmeritedness | unnecessary | unneeded | unreasonableness | unrestraint | verbose See Also | embarrassment | exorbitance | fullness | humoring | immoderateness | immoderation | indulgence | indulging | nimiety | outrageousness | overabundance | overmuch | overmuchness | overplus | pampering | plethora | superabundance | superfluity Excess In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*cess"\, n. [OE. exces, excess, ecstasy, L. excessus a
going out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum,
to go out, go beyond: cf. F. exc[`e]s. See {Exceed}.]
1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being
of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that
which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess
of provisions or of light.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a
perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and
ridiculous excess. --Shak.
That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess
of joy. --Walsh.
2. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of
proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance;
dissipation.
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. --Eph. v.
18.
Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches
blame. --Milton.
3. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds
another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers
is the excess of one over the other.
{Spherical excess} (Geom.), the amount by which the sum of
the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right
angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area
of the triangle.
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