excess

3 definitions found

excess - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Excess \Ex*cess"\, n. [OE. exces, excess, ecstasy, L. excessus a
     going out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum,
     to go out, go beyond: cf. F. exc[`e]s. See Exceed.]
     1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being
        of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that
        which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness;
        superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess
        of provisions or of light.
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              To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
              To throw a perfume on the violet, . . .
              Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.    --Shak.
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              That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess
              of joy.                               --Walsh.
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     2. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of
        proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance;
        dissipation.
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              Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. --Eph. v.
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              Thy desire . . . leads to no excess
              That reaches blame.                   --Milton.
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     3. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds
        another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers
        is the excess of one over the other.
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     Spherical excess (Geom.), the amount by which the sum of
        the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right
        angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area
        of the triangle.
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excess - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  excess
      adj 1: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to
             lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on
             the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be
             thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by
             technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room";
             "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of
             her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary)
             words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary
             internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the
             needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare,
             supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary,
             surplus]
      n 1: a quantity much larger than is needed [syn: excess,
           surplus, surplusage, nimiety]
      2: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or
         permitted limits [syn: excess, excessiveness,
         inordinateness]
      3: the state of being more than full [syn: surfeit, excess,
         overabundance]
      4: excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by
         overindulgence" [syn: overindulgence, excess]

excess - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "excess":
     Saturnalia, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk,
     blowing up, burlesque, caricature, crapulence, crapulency,
     crapulousness, de trop, debauchery, dilatation, dilation,
     disentitlement, dispensable, dissipation, dissoluteness,
     drunkenness, empty claim, empty title, enhancement, enlargement,
     exaggerating, exaggeration, excessive, excessiveness, exorbitance,
     exorbitancy, expansion, expendable, expletive, extortionateness,
     extra, extravagance, extreme, false claim, fat, glut, gluttony,
     grandiloquence, gratuitous, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole,
     hyperbolism, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impropriety,
     in excess, inappropriateness, incontinence, indiscipline,
     indulgence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance,
     intemperateness, inundation, invalid claim, lack of claim,
     leftover, leftovers, magnification, needless, nimiety, no claim,
     nonessential, outrageousness, overabundance, overage, overbalance,
     overdoing, overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overflowing,
     overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overmeasure, overmuch,
     overpass, overplus, overproduction, overrun, overrunning,
     overspill, overspreading, overstatement, overstock, oversupply,
     pleonastic, plethora, plus, preposterousness, prodigality,
     profuseness, profusion, prolix, puffery, puffing up, redundancy,
     redundant, remaining, residual, self-indulgence, self-restraint,
     sensationalism, spare, stretching, superabundance, supererogation,
     supererogatory, superfluity, superfluous, superiority, superlative,
     supernumerary, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swinishness,
     tall talk, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, too much,
     too-muchness, touting, travesty, uncalled-for, unconscionableness,
     unconstraint, uncontrol, undeservedness, undeservingness,
     undueness, unentitledness, unessential, unmeritedness, unnecessary,
     unneeded, unreasonableness, unrestraint, verbose