redundancy

Roget category 641

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#641. Redundancy

noun

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.].

verb

superabound, overabound^† — know no bounds, swarm — meet one at every turn — creep with, crawl with, bristle with — overflow — run over, flow over, well over, brim over — run riot — overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark etc. (go beyond) 303 — surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood — drug, drug the market — hepatize^†.
choke, cloy, accloy^†, suffocate — pile up, lay on thick — impregnate with — lavish etc. (squander) 818.
send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens^† — teach one's grandmother to suck eggs — pisces natare docere [Lat.] — kill the slain, gild refined gold," gild the lily," butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon — employ a steam engine to crack a nut etc. (waste) 638.
exaggerate etc. 549 — wallow in roll in etc. (plenty) 639 — remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.

adjective

redundant — too much, too many — exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish — prodigal etc. 818 — exorbitant — overweening — extravagant — overcharged etc. v. — supersaturated, drenched, overflowing — running over, running to waste, running down.
crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing — gorged, ready to burst — dropsical, turgid, plethoric — obese etc. 194.
superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous^†, uncalled for, to spare, in excess — over and above etc. (remainder) 40 — de trop [Fr.] — adscititious etc. (additional) 37 — supernumerary etc. (reserve) 636 — on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive — un peu fort [Fr.].

adverb

over, too, over and above — overmuch, too much — too far — without measure, beyond measure, out of measure — with a to spare — over head and ears — up to one's eyes, up to one's ears — extra — beyond the mark etc. (transcursion) 303 — acervatim [Lat.].

phrase

it never rains but it pours — fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis [Lat.].
2. Degree of Subservience

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