overabundance

overabundance
noun
1. the state of being more than full
• Syn: ↑surfeit, ↑excess
• Derivationally related forms: ↑surfeit (for: ↑surfeit)
• Hypernyms: ↑fullness
2. a quantity that is more than what is appropriate
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four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy

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we received an inundation of email

• Derivationally related forms: ↑superabundant (for: ↑superabundance), ↑overmuch (for: ↑overmuchness), ↑overabundant
• Hypernyms: ↑abundance, ↑copiousness, ↑teemingness
• Hyponyms:

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n
surplus, surfeit, excess, glut, profusion, oversupply,embarras de choix, embarras de richesses
FORMAL superfluity, superabundance, plethora
≠ lack, dearth

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\\| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: Middle English, from over (III) + abundance, abundaunce abundance
: an excessive abundance : surfeit, excess, plethora

an overabundance of experience with totalitarian governments — John Dean

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—overabundant, adj. —overabundantly, adv.
/oh"veuhr euh bun"deuhns/, n.
an excessive amount or abundance; surfeit: an overabundance of sugar in the diet.
[1350-1400; ME; see OVER-, ABUNDANCE]
Syn. excess, surplus, plethora, glut, profusion.

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overabunˈdance (↑abundance) n(5)
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Main Entry: ↑over-

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