excess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɛs/
ipa: /ɪkˈsɛs/
ipa: /ɛkˈsɛs/
ipa: /əkˈsɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: excesses
Etymology: From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed.
Senses: examples: text: The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.
text: To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet, […]
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.
ref: c. 1690, William Walsh, "Jealosy", in The Poetical Works of William Walsh (1797), page 19 (Google preview)
text: [...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:
synonyms: overage
superabundance
surplus
antonyms: deficiency
lack
shortage
glosses: The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
examples: text: The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
glosses: The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
examples: text: And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:18:
text: Fair Angel, thy desire . . .
. . . leads to no excess
That reaches blame
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: business
insurance
synonyms: word: deductible
topics: insurance
business
glosses: A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
Synonyms: word: abundance
word: acrasia
word: acrasy
word: excess
word: excessiveness
word: exuberance
word: copiousness
word: fecundity
word: fertileness
word: fertility
word: fruitfulness
word: fulth
word: glut
word: immoderation
word: incontinence
word: intemperance
word: mountain
word: nimiety
word: overabundance
word: overage
word: overflow
word: overplus
word: overquantity
word: oversum
word: plenteousness
word: plentifulness
word: plenty
word: plethora
word: productiveness
word: profusion
word: superabundance
word: superaddition
word: superfluity
word: superfluousness
word: superflux
word: superplus
word: surfeit
word: surplus
word: surplusage
word: uberty
word: ug
Hyponyms: word: agricultural surplus
word: capital surplus
word: flattery
word: greed
word: obesity
word: overmeasure
word: overstock
word: surcharge
word: talkativeness
word: wealth
Derived terms: in excess of
sexcess
spherical excess
to excess
Related terms: word: exceed
word: excessive
word: bonanza
word: extravagance
word: inundation
word: lion's share
word: slew
word: too much
word: abundant
word: cornucopia