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.
18.
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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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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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 prover; immoderateness;
superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess
of provisions or of light.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a
perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and
ridiculous excess. --Shak.
That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess
of joy. --Walsh.
2. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of
proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance;
dissipation.
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. --Eph. v.
18.
Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches
blame. --Milton.
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.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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