'Superfluity' definitions:
Definition of 'superfluity'
From: WordNet
noun
Definition of 'Superfluity'
From: GCIDE
- Superfluity \Su`per*flu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Superfluities. [L. superfluit['e], L. superfluitas. See Superfluous.]
- 1. 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. --Suckling. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess. "By a superfluity abominable." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Superabundance; excess; redundancy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'superfluity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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