Meaning of Excess | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
   countable, uncountable
2. Overabundance of something.
3. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
   countable, uncountable
4. Part or quantity that is further of the norm of reference.
5. An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
   countable, uncountable
6. What exceeds the considered decent, normal, or reasonable.
7. Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
   countable, uncountable
8. A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
   British, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.”

“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, […] Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”

“That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.”

“[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.”

“The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.”

“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.”

“Fair Angel, thy desire . . . . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame”

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