Dictionary Definition
superfluity n : extreme excess; "an embarrassment
of riches" [syn: overplus, plethora, embarrassment]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.
- Something superfluous, as a luxury.
Translations
The quality or state of being superfluous
Something superfluous
- French: superflu
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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