superfluity
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˌsuː.pəˈfluː.ɪ.ti/
Noun

superfluity

  1. The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
    Antonyms: necessity
  2. Something superfluous, as a luxury.
    Antonyms: necessity
  3. (rare) Collective noun for a group of nuns.
    • 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266 ↗:
      These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.
    • 2011, Sam Cullen, The Odd Bunnies, unnumbered page ↗:
      Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.
    • 2012, Beth Yarnall, Rush, Crimson Romance (2012), ISBN 9781440554223, unnumbered page ↗:
      […] That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.”
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