superabundance

su·per·a·bun·dant

(so͞o′pər-ə-bŭn′dənt)

adj.

Abundant to excess.

su′per·a·bun′dance n.

su′per·a·bun′dant·ly adv.

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Noun

superabundance - a quantity that is more than what is appropriate; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"; "we received an inundation of email"

overmuch, overmuchness, overabundance

abundance, copiousness, teemingness - the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"

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; "a bellyful of your complaints"

superabundance

noun

A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate:

embarrassment, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit.

Translations

Überfluss

excès surabondance

sovrabbondante sovrabbondanza

superabundance

[ˌsuːpərəˈbʌndəns] N → superabundancia f, sobreabundancia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

superabundance

n (→ an +dat) → großer Reichtum; (= excessive amount) → Überfluss m, → Überschuss m; (of enthusiasm) → Überschuss m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

superabundance

[ˈsuːp/ərəˌbʌndəns] n → sovrabbondanza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength.

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She wished to help him, to bestow on him the superabundance of her own happiness.

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And out of the midst of superabundance, it is delightful to look out upon distant seas.

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We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind, that though food may be now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year.

Thus we can easily raise plenty of corn and rape-seed, &c., in our fields, because the seeds are in great excess compared with the number of birds which feed on them; nor can the birds, though having a superabundance of food at this one season, increase in number proportionally to the supply of seed, as their numbers are checked during winter: but any one who has tried, knows how troublesome it is to get seed from a few wheat or other such plants in a garden; I have in this case lost every single seed.

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Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered enter- tainment and required no capital, for he had a troub- lesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.

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From this apprehension, however, I was quickly relieved; for Kory-Kory, leaping from the pi-pi, and then backing himself up against it, like a porter in readiness to shoulder a trunk, with loud vociferations and a superabundance of gestures, gave me to understand that I was to mount upon his back and be thus transported to the stream, which flowed perhaps two hundred yards from the house.

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In fact, if not exactly a believer in the doctrine of the efficiency of the extra good works of saints, he really seemed somehow or other to fancy that his wife had piety and benevolence enough for two--to indulge a shadowy expectation of getting into heaven through her superabundance of qualities to which he made no particular pretension.

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The chill is almost imperceptible in the fifteenth century; the press is, as yet, too weak, and, at the most, draws from powerful architecture a superabundance of life.

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Firstly, the Philanthropists were in very bad training: much too fleshy, and presenting, both in face and figure, a superabundance of what is known to Pugilistic Experts as Suet Pudding.

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She by her fickleness strove to make my ruin irretrievable; I will strive to gratify her wishes by seeking destruction; and it will show generations to come that I alone was deprived of that of which all others in misfortune have a superabundance, for to them the impossibility of being consoled is itself a consolation, while to me it is the cause of greater sorrows and sufferings, for I think that even in death there will not be an end of them."