Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Superfluity; excess.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being too much; redundancy; excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare State of being in excess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun state of being in
excess , possessing more than is needed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quantity much larger than is needed
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A nimiety of money is not synonymous with prosperity.
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Some are thrilling in their audacity — they are prophetic, magical, sublime, we futilely say: if we tire of them or are not in the mood to appreciate their excesses, we say that they are pretentious, as Coleridge spoke of "a nimiety, too-muchness."
'On Eloquence' 2008
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Nor that a nimiety of it doesn't help solve a lot of practical problems.
Take your heart and run! Ms Robinson 2007
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Had Chenille, who had stabbed Orpine in a nimiety of terror, loved something beyond herself?
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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Had Chenille, who had stabbed Orpine in a nimiety of terror, loved something beyond herself?
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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KKRove "whine" in nimiety (excess) because Fix News has been all but banned from the White House.
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The next challenging word I cited was in "a nimiety of rules."
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A nimiety (nih-MY-ih-tee) is too much of something, an overabundance.
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The next challenging word I cited was in "a nimiety of rules."
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If you are hunting for added distinction of assign whatever lenders are today suggesting you take more than the turn mitt on your direct mortgage and using the nimiety change to clear for your distinction of credit.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
bilby commented on the word nimiety
"Just as daily life contains all the comforts of what one owns, there is also a natural shedding or forgetting and a natural dulling, otherwise one becomes burdened with a sense of nimiety, a sense (as Kenneth Clark put it in his autobiography) of the 'too-muchness' of life."
- Nicholas Poburko, 'Poetry Past And Present: F. T. Prince's Walks in Rome', Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, 1 January 1999.
June 19, 2009
1505659516 commented on the word nimiety
nimiety in Bulgarian "излишък" "обилие"
May 4, 2010