superfluousness

noun

Definition of superfluousnessnext
as in surplus

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  1. surplus
  2. excess
  3. superfluity
  4. overkill
  5. surfeit
  6. overdose
  7. oversupply
  8. amplitude
Noun
  • Plains All American Pipeline has a working capital surplus of $33 million and approximately $3.3 billion of liquidity available as of September 30, 2024.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Newsom, first elected in 2018, temporarily increased the incentive by $90 million when the state enjoyed a large pandemic-era surplus in 2021.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Oct. 2024
Definition of surplus
Noun
  • Just an overdue recalibration of what constitutes luxury versus excess; omakase counters are thriving, after all.
    Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The ’80s excess is on point, from maximalist cocktail attire to the mile-high-club encounter in the Concorde bathroom that opens the series.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of excess
Noun
  • Randomness emerges as the missing ingredient, the defence against superfluity, the guarantor that any person is, in fact, the only self.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 12 June 2024
  • Retrospectives that span so many decades usually follow a certain arc: skill-building, imitation of admired masters, the finding of a personal voice, maybe a late-in-life fascination with superfluity (think Titian’s brushstrokes or Henry James’s sentences).
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
Definition of superfluity
Noun
  • The rehearsed, synchronized closer was slight overkill, no?
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 19 July 2024
  • Nordlinger also notes an important instance of overkill.
    Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2012
Definition of overkill
Noun
  • Beneath a surfeit of chandeliers stands a table laden with items of celebratory excess.
    Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Frankenweenie is Burton’s geeky salute to old Frankenstein flicks, but the wit of the homage can’t always overcome the director’s habitual inability to tell stories without a surfeit of strained gags and indifferent plotting.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of surfeit
Noun
  • In 2019, Proffitt’s son George, who was transgender, died at the age of 20 from a drug overdose.
    Serena Lin, Them, 4 Nov. 2024
  • But, at least for now, the biggest risks with pink cocaine don’t seem to be addiction or fatal overdose.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of overdose
Noun
  • With more assets sold, prices will fall amid an oversupply of deals, the bid-ask spread will narrow to a market-clearing level, and a new valuation equilibrium will be reached.
    Control Risks, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Dealers say the diverging paths of the various generations has led to an oversupply of seven- and eight-figure Impressionist and Abstract works.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of oversupply
Noun
  • The amplitudes take the form of fractions, with a numerator above a denominator.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
  • This suggests that our brain associates slower, more regular changes in amplitude with music and faster, irregular changes with speech.
    Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
Definition of amplitude
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