| Concept: | Redundance. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; actual subservience |
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-nouns
redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation (water); avalanche., accumulation (store); heap; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden., excess; surplus, overplus; epact; margin; remainder; duplicate; surplusage, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza., luxury; intemperance; extravagance (prodigality); exorbitance, lavishment., pleonasm (diffuseness); too many irons in the fire; embarras de richesses.
-verbs
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 (go beyond) [more]; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize., choke, cloy, accloy, suffoccate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish (squander)., send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;.kill the slain, "gild refined gold", "gild the lilly", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut (waste)., exaggerate; wallow in roll in (plenty); remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.
-adjectives
redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged; supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running running over, running to waste, running down., crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst; dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese., superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess; over and above (remainder); de trop; adscititious (additional); supernumerary (reserve); on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort.
-adverbs
over, too, over and above; overmuch, too much; too far; without measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with . . . to spare; over head and ears; up to one's eyes, ears; extra; beyond the mark (transcursion); acervatim.
-phrases
it never rains but it pours; fortune multis dat mimium nulli satis.
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Antonyms: |
sufficiency |
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| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance of something |
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balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
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dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want |
| Main Entry: | wordiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbosity |
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circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, windiness |
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directness, straightforwardness, terseness |
| Main Entry: | overflowing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overflow |
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copiousness, cornucopia, deluge, exuberance, freshet, inundation, profusion, redundance, redundancy, spate, spillway, superabundance |
| Main Entry: | pleonasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
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circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
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circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | superfluousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
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balance, by-product, embarrassment, enough, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overabundance, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | verboseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness |
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circumlocution, copiousness, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, logorrhea, long-windedness, loquaciousness, loquacity, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, tautology, verbiage, verbosity, windiness, wordage |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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a gogo, adscititious, crammed to overflowing, dangwallet, drenched, dropsical, duplicate, excessive, exorbitant, expletive, extravagant, exuberant, filled to overflowing, gorged, in excess, inordinate, lautitious, lavish, luxurious, needless, obese, on one's hands, opiparous, outré, over and above, overcharged, overflowing, overfond, overmuch, overweening, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, ready to burst, redundant, replete, running down, running over, running to waste, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, supersaturated, supervacaneous, to spare, too many, too much, turgid, uncalled for, unnecessary, woundy
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| Main Entry: | prolixity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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ambagious, circumlocutory, copious, diffuse, digressive, discursive, episodic, excursive, exuberant, flatulent, frothy, largiloquent, lengthy, long, long, long drawn out, longsome, maundering, periphrastic, pleonastic, profuse, prolix, prosing, protracted, rambling, roundabout, spun out, verbose, wordy
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