Superfluity

/sˌuːpəfljˈuːɪti/

/sˌuːpɚfljˈuːɪɾi/

Superfluity

an amount that is more than necessary

Examples

1. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean: superfluity come sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

2. Tea tables and other foreign superfluities have given place to spinning wheels, looms.

3. Tea tables and other foreign superfluities have given place to spinning wheels, looms.

4. All of us suffer from a fear of superfluity, which the requirements of others has a critical capacity to appease.