nimiety

nimiety

English

Etymology

Latin nimietās, from nimius (“excessive”) and nimis (“excessively”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈmaɪ ɪ ti/

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Noun

nimiety (countable and uncountable, plural nimieties)

1. State of being in excess, more than is needed.
   • June 2, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk

     There is a nimiety, - a too-muchness - in all Germans.

   • 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Clips from a Life, →ISBN:

     I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.

Synonyms

• superfluity
• surfeit

References

• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000