| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: embarrassment, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit. See EXCESS. 2. Immoderate indulgence, as in food or drink: intemperance, overindulgence, surfeit. See EXCESS. 3. An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: fat, glut, overage, overflow, overmuch, overrun, overstock, oversupply, superfluity, surplus, surplusage. See EXCESS. | | ADJECTIVE: | Being more than is needed, desired, or appropriate: de trop, extra, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus. See EXCESS.
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