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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
etc.
(rank)
875;
Triton among the minnows,
primus inter pares [Lat.],
nulli secundus [Lat.],
captain;
crackajack [U.S.].
supremacy,
preeminence;
lead;
maximum;
record;
trikumia [Gr.],
climax;
culmination
etc.
(summit)
210;
transcendence;
ne plus ultra [Lat.];
lion's share,
Benjamin's mess;
excess,
surplus
etc.
(remainder)
40;
(redundancy)
641.
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Roget 40:
remainder,
residue;
remains,
remanent,
remnant,
rest,
relic;
leavings,
heeltap†,
odds and ends,
cheesepairings†,
candle ends,
orts†;
residuum;
dregs
etc.
(dirt)
653;
refuse
etc.
(useless)
645;
stubble,
result,
educt†;
fag-end;
ruins,
wreck,
skeleton. ,
stump;
alluvium.
surplus,
overplus†,
excess;
balance,
complement;
superplus†,
surplusage†;
superfluity
etc.
(redundancy)
641;
survival,
survivance†.
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Roget 641:
redundancy,
redundance†;
too much,
too many;
superabundance,
superfluity,
superfluence†,
saturation;
nimiety†,
transcendency,
exuberance,
profuseness;
profusion
etc.
(plenty)
639;
repletion,
enough in all conscience,
satis superque [Lat.],
lion's share;
more than enough
etc.
639;
plethora,
engorgement,
congestion,
load,
surfeit,
sickener†;
turgescence
etc.
(expansion)
194†;
overdose,
overmeasure†,
oversupply,
overflow;
inundation
etc.
(water)
348;
avalanche.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
heap
etc.
72;
drug,
drug in the market;
glut;
crowd;
burden.
excess;
surplus,
overplus†;
epact†;
margin;
remainder
etc.
40;
duplicate;
surplusage†,
expletive;
work of supererogation;
bonus,
bonanza.
luxury;
intemperance
etc.
954;
extravagance
etc.
(prodigality)
818;
exorbitance,
lavishment†.
pleonasm
etc.
(diffuseness)
573;
too many irons in the fire;
embarras de richesses [Fr.].
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Roget 954:
intemperance;
sensuality,
animalism,
carnality;
tragalism†;
pleasure;
effeminacy,
silkiness;
luxury,
luxuriousness;
lap of pleasure,
lap of luxury;
free living.
indulgence;
high living,
wild living,
inabstinence†,
self-indulgence;
voluptuousness
etc.
adj.;
epicurism,
epicureanism;
sybaritism;
drug habit.
dissipation;
licentiousness
etc.
adj.;
debauchery;
crapulence†.
revels,
revelry;
debauch,
carousal,
jollification,
drinking bout,
wassail,
saturnalia,
orgies;
excess,
too much.
Circean cup.
[drugs of abuse: list]
bhang,
hashish,
marijuana,
pot [Coll.],
hemp [Coll.],
grass [Coll.];
opium,
cocaine,
morphine,
heroin;
LSD,
lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem];
phencyclidine,
angel dust,
PCP;
barbiturates;
amphetamines,
speed [Coll.].
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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
4 excess
Excessive indulgence.
synonym: overindulgence.
Polish: wyskok, eksces, wybryk, odskok
adjective
1 excess
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, 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, 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 ... show more.
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