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superfluity

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˌsuː.pəˈfluː.ɪ.ti/Part of speech nounSorted efilprstuuyStarts with SEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. extreme excess

Word origin

From superflu(ous) + -ity, Old French superfluite, from Medieval Latin superfluitas, from Latin superfluus.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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