Excess

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state of exceeding what is normal or sufficient: rains that filled the reservoirs to excess.
  • n. An amount or quantity beyond what is normal or sufficient; a surplus.
  • n. The amount or degree by which one quantity exceeds another: Profit is the excess of sales over costs.
  • n. Intemperance; overindulgence: drank to excess.
  • n. A behavior or an action that exceeds proper or lawful bounds: tried to avoid engaging in emotional excesses such as hysteria and fits of temper.
  • adj. Being more than is usual, required, or permitted: skimming off the excess fat. See Synonyms at superfluous.
  • v. To eliminate the job or position of.
  • idiom. in excess of Greater than; more than: unit sales in excess of 20 million.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
  • n. Spherical excess, 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.
  • n. A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for the first part of any claim, in exchange for a lower premium.
  • adj. More than is normal, necessary or specified
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
  • n. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A going beyond ordinary, necessary, or proper limits; superfluity in number, quantity, or amount; undue quantity; superabundance: as, an excess of provisions; excess of bile in the system.
  • n. Undue indulgence of appetite; want of restraint in gratifying the desires; intemperance; over-indulgence.
  • n. The amount by which one number or quantity exceeds another; overplus; surplus: as, the excess of revenue over expenditures is so much.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the state of being more than full
  • n. a quantity much larger than is needed
  • adj. more than is needed, desired, or required
  • n. excessive indulgence
  • n. immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
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    unnecessary    unneeded   
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    excessed   
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    Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness   
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    amount    lack    total    degree    combination    trace    increase    impulse    folly    violence