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SUPERABUNDANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quantity that is more than what is appropriate
Example:
we received an inundation of email
Synonyms:
overabundance; overmuch; overmuchness; superabundance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("superabundance" is a kind of...):
abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "superabundance"):
excess; nimiety; surplus; surplusage (a quantity much larger than is needed)
glut; oversupply; surfeit (the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall)
bellyful (an undesirable overabundance)
Derivation:
superabundant (most excessively abundant)
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