superfluity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌsuː.pəˈfluː.ɪ.ti/
superfluity
- The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
- Antonyms: necessity
- Something superfluous, as a luxury.
- Antonyms: necessity
- (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.”
- 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266 ↗:
- French: superfluité
- Portuguese: superfluidade
- Spanish: superfluidad
- French: superflu
- Italian: superfluo
- Portuguese: superfluidade, supérfluo
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