Superfluity
[,suːpə'fluːɪtɪ;,sjuː-] or [,sʊpɚ'flʊəti]
Definition
(n.) A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.
(n.) The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
(n.) Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
Typed by Bush
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Superabundance, excess, redundance, redundancy, exuberance, surfeit, more than enough, enough and to spare.
Editor: Lucius
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Redundance, needlessness, supererogation, pleonasm, excess
ANT:Necessity, necessary, requirement, shortcoming, deficiency
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Socially speaking, Joshua Rigg would have been generally pronounced a superfluity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was a superfluity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Touched by such superfluity of simple confidence in a woman of her mature years, I opened the ample reservoirs of my nature and absorbed it all. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The former, consequently, would be glad to dispose of; and the latter to purchase, a part of this superfluity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But what madness must it be to _run in debt_ for these superfluities? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It gives a value to their superfluities, by exchanging them for something else, which may satisfy a part of their wants and increase their enjoyments. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We sell our victuals to the Islands for rum and sugar; the substantial necessaries of life for superfluities. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Could all these people, now employed in raising, making, or carrying superfluities, be subsisted by raising necessaries? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A rich man lies under a moral obligation to communicate to those in necessity a share of his superfluities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
Editor: Ramon