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superfluity
The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
Something superfluous, as a luxury.
💬 Quotations
I really doubt whether there be such a thing as a heart in the world: perhaps, after all, it is only an elegant superfluity kept for the use of poets. Certainly we have no use for it here.
It is to be presumed that Miss Blanche Amory had more than one rose in her bouquet, and why should not the kind young creature give out of her superfluity, and make as many partners as possible happy?
(rare) Collective noun for a group of nuns.