Word Meanings - NIMIETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

State of being in excess. There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. Coleridge.

SURFEIT-WATER
Water for the cure of surfeits. Locke.
PLETHORA
1. Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperæmia; -- opposed to anæmia. 2. State of being overfull;
SURFEIT
arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See 1. Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick
SURFEITER
One who surfeits. Shak.
EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 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;
EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
NIMIETY
State of being in excess. There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. Coleridge.
SUPERABUNDANCE
The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.