excessiveness

Definitions of excessiveness
  1. noun
    immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
    synonyms: excess, inordinateness
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    extravagance, extravagancy
    the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
    exorbitance, outrageousness
    excessive excess
    embarrassment, overplus, plethora, superfluity
    extreme excess
    redundance, redundancy
    the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
    type of:
    immoderateness, immoderation
    the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation
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