Meaning of Superfluity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
   countable, uncountable
2. Something superfluous, as a luxury.
   countable, uncountable
3. Collective noun for a group of nuns.
   countable, rare, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Each stores has its own⟳ storekeeper, a clerk who specializes in organizing his department so that there is not a superfluity of one article and a scarcity of another.”

“As they had almost all the conveniencies of life within themselves, they seldom visited towns or cities in search⟳ of superfluity.”

“I really doubt⟳ whether there be such a thing as a heart in the world: perhaps, after all, it is only an elegant superfluity kept for the use⟳ of poets. Certainly we have⟳ no use⟳ for it here.”

“It is to be presumed that Miss⟳ Blanche Amory had more than one rose in her bouquet, and why should not the kind young creature give⟳ out of her superfluity, and make⟳ as many partners as possible happy?”

“These probably mark⟳ the dwelling of a colony, or to speak⟳ more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.”

“Alice put⟳ Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.”

“[…] That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.””

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