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excess

noun

1 excess

A quantity much larger than is needed.

synonyms: nimiety, surplus, surplusage.

Roget 33: superiority, majority; greatness etc. 31; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility ... show more

Roget 40: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; ... show more

Roget 641: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion ... show more

Roget 954: intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.    ... show more

Dutch: exces, overmaat, overschot, plus, surplus, teveel
Polish: zapas

2 excess

Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.

synonyms: excessiveness, inordinateness.

Polish: redundancja, nadmiarowość

3 excess

The state of being more than full.

synonyms: overabundance, surfeit.

Polish: przesyt, nadmiar

4 excess

Excessive indulgence.

synonym: overindulgence.

Polish: wyskok, eksces, wybryk, odskok

adjective

1 excess

More than is needed, desired, or required:
— Trying to lose excess weight.

synonyms: extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus.

Polish: zbytni


Moby thesaurus: Saturnalia, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, de trop, debauchery, dilatation, dilation, disentitlement, dispensable, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunkenness ... show more.

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