overabundance

Noun

Meaning

the state of being more than full

a quantity that is more than what is appropriate

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

excess surfeit overmuch overmuchness superabundance fat flood surplus abundance plenty redundancy saturation overflow landslide embarrassment

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Antonyms

little need lack failure want bit

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Hypernyms

abundance fullness copiousness teemingness

Hyponyms

excess surplus glut oversupply surfeit nimiety

Phrases with the word

abundance or overabundance of something

Examples

Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick. Jack McDevitt

Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance - that is all! Anaïs Nin

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert Simon

I do not deny that most managers lack a good deal of information that they should have, but I do deny that this is the most important informational deficiency from which they suffer. It seems to me that they suffer more from an overabundance of irrelevant information. Russell L. Ackoff

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. Susan Sarandon

Overabundance is not far from want. Nigerian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

overabsorption overabstemious overabstract overabundant overabundantly overabuse