'Excessiveness' definitions:
Definition of 'excessiveness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits [syn: excess, excessiveness, inordinateness]
Definition of 'Excessiveness'
From: GCIDE
- Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. [1913 Webster]
- Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak.
- Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -{Ex*cess"ive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excessiveness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- bigotry,
- boundlessness,
- crapulence,
- crapulency,
- crapulousness,
- drunkenness,
- egregiousness,
- enormousness,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- exorbitance,
- exorbitancy,
- extortionateness,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- extreme,
- extremeness,
- extremes,
- extremism,
- extremity,
- fabulousness,
- fanaticalness,
- fanaticism,
- giantism,
- gigantism,
- gluttony,
- hyperbole,
- hypertrophy,
- immoderacy,
- immoderateness,
- immoderation,
- incontinence,
- indiscipline,
- indulgence,
- inordinacy,
- inordinance,
- inordinateness,
- intemperance,
- intemperateness,
- monstrousness,
- nimiety,
- outrageousness,
- overdevelopment,
- overdoing,
- overenthusiasm,
- overgreatness,
- overgrowth,
- overindulgence,
- overlargeness,
- overmuch,
- overmuchness,
- overreaction,
- overreligiousness,
- overzealousness,
- perfervidness,
- preposterousness,
- prodigality,
- rabidness,
- radicalism,
- self-indulgence,
- swinishness,
- too much,
- too-muchness,
- ultrazealousness,
- unconscionableness,
- unconstraint,
- uncontrol,
- undueness,
- unreasonableness,
- unrestrainedness,
- unrestraint,
- zealotism,
- zealotry