Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being superfluous.
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- noun The state or quality of being
superfluous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The superfluousness of RN aside, the fact that Comcast is a partner in this venture should concern fans of real news.
Right Network: 'Pro-America, Pro-Business, Pro-Military Sensibilities' 2010
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The superfluousness of RN aside, the fact that Comcast is a partner in this venture should concern fans of real news.
Allison Kilkenny: Right Network: 'Pro-America, Pro-Business, Pro-Military Sensibilities' 2010
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In about two years, stories like this will seem quaint, if they don't enrage you at their superfluousness.
Requiring digital cameras and camera phones to make an audible click. Ann Althouse 2009
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I wonder if anyone else is like me a bit worried by the blatant superfluousness of the word both in expressions like the one I most recently heard attributed to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton viz ...both America and China need to work together.
On also, too DC 2009
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So, he gets sent to kill a dragon, given his superfluousness.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Blue Moon Rising - Simon R. Green Blue Tyson 2009
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And while no one would argue that 840 pages of cash-flush ad sales wasn't uncommon pre-2008, the seeming superfluousness and excess of transcontinental travel and endless re-shoots of $5,000 dresses are balanced by surprisingly long hours, bags under the eyes, and two very different levels of perfectionism that, come press time, leave both the 59-year-old Wintour and 68-year-old Coddington exhausted.
Kristi York Wooten: When Vogue Says No: Beyond The September Issue 2009
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The discussion of the superfluousness of a single phrase of the the 1st amendment ignores the argument that the first amendment itself is superfluous.
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The handout is for you, you magnum opus of superfluousness.
Aemilia Scott: An Open Letter to Outraged Conservatives 2009
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While I wasn't as enthusiastic as you over "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," I totally agree with you about Cruz, and about the superfluousness of the narration.
2008 Year-End Wrap-Up Ed Howard 2009
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It doesn't feel like I've released that much inanity and superfluousness into cyberspace.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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