Excess is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXCESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to eliminate the position of
• make (a position) redundant
NOUN:
• an amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable
• the amount by which one quantity or number exceeds another
• the action of exceeding a permitted or acceptable limit
• lack of moderation, especially in eating or drinking
• outrageous or immoderate behaviour
• a part of an insurance claim to be paid by the insured
• state or act of exceeding the permitted limits
• The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
• An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
• The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
• a quantity much larger than is needed
• immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
• the state of being more than full
• excessive indulgence
ADJECTIVE:
• exceeding a prescribed or desirable amount
• required as extra payment
• more than is needed, desired, or required

Words related to EXCESS

excessed18 excesses17 excessing19 nimiety12 plethora13 superfluity19

How to use EXCESS in a sentence

• By a faulty logic, things which in excess are hurtful are denied a moderate use.
• The minor, rarely the graver affections of the nervous system, do follow the use of tobacco in excess.
• How much constitutes excess varies with each individual.
• He is shy of all imposing appearances, of all assumptions of self-importance, of all adventitious ornaments, of all mechanical advantages, even to a nervous excess.
• Occasionally, from sheer excess of emotion, I would burst into verse, of a quality not to be doubted.
• Latinism, like every new craze, became a passion, and ran through the less intelligent kinds of writing in a wild excess.
• I prefer a tendency to stateliness, to an excess of fellowship.
• After the plates come out of the last bath, they should be stood on clean blotting paper to absorb the excess of solution.
• After reporting that the regiment already had several hundred men in excess of that strength, authority was granted to retain the excess men.
• He was guilty of no breach of the morals of his time, and it is likely also, in spite of Suetonius, that he was guilty of no excess.
• It was his very excess of panic, which turned his head, and caused him to do that which would have been beyond his power under other circumstances.
• Excess of fatigue, brought on at last two hours of prostration, from which I emerged with a better command of my reason.
• But not high spirits alone would have led the two young poets to such excess of laughter as made the evening so very memorable.
• In 1517 the court instructed the chamberlain to avoid excess of diet on the customary visit.
• Each in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other.
• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
• An examination of our language habits will show that nearly every one has one or more words which he uses to excess.
• Irishmen argue that the excess might better go to the development of Ireland.
• The journey was a progress of great splendour, with an excess of feasting never known before.
• The excess flesh of the deputy marshal would have brought his nickname to the mind of an imbecile.
• To endure without excess of emotion saves her from consequent nervousness, and from that feebleness of mind and body which craves at all cost instant relief.
• Wherefore then the prohibition? It is rather the excess of their joy, than the joy itself which is here forbidden.

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