The Collaborative International Dictionary
Superfluity \Su`per*flu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Superfluities. [L. superfluit['e], L. superfluitas. See Superfluous.]
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A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.
--Suckling. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess. ``By a superfluity abominable.''
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Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
Syn: Superabundance; excess; redundancy.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of superfluity English)
Usage examples of "superfluities".
Although a literary artist, Tolstoy was one of those primitive oaks of men to whom the superfluities and insincerities, the cupidities, complications, and cruelties of our polite civilization are profoundly unsatisfying, and for whom the eternal veracities lie with more natural and animal things.
I have softened some extravagant hyperbeles, and pared away some superfluities of the original.