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superabundance

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance. Marshall McLuhan

Things are never beautiful by themselves but appear so to anyone who projects on to them his superabundance of life. But just as unconscious activity is unaware of itself as such, so man ‘forgets himself' as the cause of these ‘beauties' and imagines that the world itself is laden with them. Sarah Kofman

Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for perpetuity overrides the doubt of realizing it, and their superabundance of life overflows upon the other side of death. Miguel de Unamuno

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions. Augustus Hare

I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness. Emil Cioran

I saw Mr. Lincoln a number of times during the canvass for his second election. The characteristic which struck me most was his superabundance of common sense. Chauncey Depew

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