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superfluity
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What does superfluity mean?
noun
- The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
- Something superfluous, such as a luxury.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (rare) A group of nuns.
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If they would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely.
A timely consciousness of the ultimate vanity of human architecture, no less than of other human things, had prevented artistic superfluity.
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If continuous cycling is productive of a superfluity of exhilaration, and said exhilaration bubbles over occasionally, plainly the bicycle is to blame.
Especially when he is suddenly brought into evidence to frustrate other people’s expectations—the very lowest aspect in which a social superfluity can present himself.
His goodness must not be a partial and transitory act, but a constant superfluity, which costs him nothing and of which he is unconscious.