Noun
A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.
The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCorn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity. Adam Smith
That questionable superfluity small beer. Douglas William Jerrold
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. Margaret Cavendish
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time - in the form of legislation and customs. Friedrich Nietzsche
While superfluity engenders disgust, appetite is but whetted when fruit is forbidden. Giovanni Boccaccio
A barren superfluity of words. Samuel Garth