Excess

Definitions: Excess

Excess

Adjective

1. More than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy".

Noun

1. A quantity much larger than is needed.

2. Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.

3. The state of being more than full.

4. Excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "excess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Excess \Ex*cess"\, noun. [from Old English expression exces, excess, ecstasy, from Latin expression excessus going out, loss of self-possession, from excedere, excessum, to go out, go beyond: compare to the French expression exc[`e]s. See Exceed.]. (Websters 1913)

Satire

Economics

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Excess

Intemperance

Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much.

Ornament

Finery, frippery, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, spangle, clinquant, pinchbeck, paste; excess of ornament; (vulgarity); gaud, pride.

Redundancy

Superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess; over and above; (remainder); de trop; adscititious; (additional); supernumerary; (reserve); on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort.

Excess; surplus, overplus; epact; margin; remainder; duplicate; surplusage, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza.

Remainder

Surplus, overplus, excess; balance, complement; superplus, surplusage; superfluity;(redundancy); survival, survivance.

Superiority

Supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; gr/trikumia/, climax; culmination; (summit); transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus; (remainder); (redundancy).

Crosswords: Excess

Swedish (excess).

I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wifes. (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry.)

I can give the excess out to the townspeople, exchanging them not for goods or services, but for goodwill and the sense of accomplishment that stems from selflessly giving of yourself to others. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride. (24 Hour Party People; writing credit: Frank Cottrell Boyce)

Excess Baggage (1933)

WWF Excess (2001)

The Road of Excess (1997)

Tales of Glamour and Excess (1997)

Burn-Up Excess (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and Reckoning (reference)

• Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess (reference)

• Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism (reference)

• Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Burn Up Excess - Crimes and Missed Demeanors (Vol. 2) (reference)

• Burn Up Excess - To Serve and Protect (Vol. 1) (reference)

• Addiction:Exiles of Excess (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• An Excess of Pleasure (reference)

• Excess of Pleasure (reference)

• Fuel - Monuments to Excess (reference)

• You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Shown is a PET scan (positron emission tomography) of a 17 year old girl with a longstanding history of epilepsy, who has a brain tumor classified as a grade 1 astrocytoma. The PET scan indicates that the tumor is not metabolizing excess glucose and is therefore benign. PET scans allow doctors to tell if a tumor is malignant without resorting to a surgical biopsy.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Removes excess fluids from the engine.

NRCS Conservationists examine a well-established filter strip on this Cass County, Illinois farm. The filter strip captures sediment and excess nutrients leaving the sloping farmland.Credit: Bob Nichols.

Wetland and streamside vegetation serves as a buffer to filter excess nutrients from water running off agricultural land. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

This image represents the equilibration of osmotic stress among the phase under study and the external stressing solution in vast excess across a semipermeable membrane. At equilibrium the osmotic pressure of the stressing solution is identical to the osmotic pressure stressing the subphase.Credit: NICHD.

A destroyer alongside the damaged USS Houston (CL-81) on 15 October 1944, removing excess crewmen after she was torpedoed by Japanese aircraft off Formosa. Photographed from USS Boston (CA-69). Note OS2U floatplane on Boston's port catapult.Credit: NAVY.

Robbers, "excess profits tax" and "income tax," beating up the consumer.Credit: Library of Congress.

Trimming excess leather from sole. Cowboy bootmaking shop, Alpine, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.

Auction sales in Greene County are frequent because as farm conditions became worse families move into smaller houses and sell excess furniture. Owensburg, Indiana.Credit: Library of Congress.

Heavy yield of grapefruit with excess fruit on ground. Near Lakeland, Florida.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The nourishment and education of their children is a charge so incumbent on parents for their children's good, that nothing can absolve them from taking care of it: and though the power of commanding and chastising them go along with it, yet God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour; the excess is seldom on the severe side, the strong byass of nature drawing the other way. (Second Treatise of Government)

Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty the personnel in excess of the above strength shall be demobilised. (reference)

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I try the rocks, and I think it cool That they laugh with such an excess of glee, As I heavily slip into every pool That skirts the cold cold Sea.

Excess of zeal kills peach and apricot trees.

At his first violent sin he had felt a wave of vitality pass out of him and had feared to find his body or his soul maimed by the excess.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Diuretics help the body excrete excess fluid. (references)

This is possibly the result of excess weight on the joints. (references)

In heart failure, this may result from excess fluid in the lungs. (references)

Business

Local banks invest in foreign stock markets to absorb excess liquidity. (references)

ROMGAZ has a vast network of pipes with a total length in excess of 35,000 kilometers. (references)

He was eventually released after having served several months in excess of his sentence. (references)

Children

Dominican Republic

In practice, juveniles are detained in excess of the time permitted by law and then are sent to jail rather than referred for rehabilitative services. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kyrgyz Republic

In April, citing an excess of outdated registrations, the Ministry of Justice required all media outlets throughout the country to reregister. (references)

Russia

There are many credible reports that police imposed fines on unregistered persons in excess of legal requirements and did not provide proper receipts or documentation of the fine. (references)

Economic History

Lesotho

Lesotho is an exporter of excess labor. (references)

Jamaica

The 76 percent excess energy is sold to JPSCo. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Foreign economic aid (1973 through 1989): In excess of $15 billion. (references)

Human Rights

Panama

The average period of pretrial custody was 16 months, and pretrial detention in excess of the maximum sentence for the alleged crime was common. (references)

China

In many provinces, penalties for excess births in an area also can be levied against local officials and the mother's work unit, thus creating multiple sources of pressure. (references)

Russia

The practice of detaining individuals arbitrarily for varying periods of time, both within and in excess of permissible periods, is common, and often resolved only with bribes. (references)

Minorities

Russia

In Moscow such persons were subjected to far more frequent document checks than others and frequently were detained or fined in excess of permissible penalties. (references)

Political Economy

PARAGUAY

It also requires overtime payment for hours in excess of the standard. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

The Act requires overtime payment (time and a half) for hours in excess of the standard. (references)

Political Rights

Uganda

On May 12, three EC officials were arrested and charged with abuse of office and neglect of duty for printing excess cards for the purpose of allegedly rigging the presidential election; on July 31, the charges were dropped. (references)

Trade

Kenya

Remittances in excess of this amount require CBK approval. (references)

Tunisia

THIS EXCESS LIQUIDITY IS NOT PRESENT ON MEDIUM TO LONG TERM CREDIT. (references)

Travel

Korea

Currency in excess of $10,000 must be declared. (references)

Romania

No amount in excess of that declared upon entry may be taken out of Romania upon departure. (references)

Mexico

Contaminants in excess of U.S. and Mexican standards pollute the air many days during the year. (references)

Worker Rights

Argentina

Overtime payment is required for hours worked in excess of these limits. (references)

China

It also prohibits overtime work in excess of 3 hours per day or 36 hours per month. (references)

Guyana

In general work in excess of an 8-hour day or a 44-hour week requires payment of an overtime rate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "excess": an excess of heat ♦ at excess ♦ base excess ♦ be in excess of ♦ carry to excess ♦ compulsory excess ♦ excess air ♦ excess baggage ♦ excess capacity ♦ excess cost ♦ excess current ♦ excess embryo ♦ excess fare ♦ excess fee ♦ excess fluid in the abdomen ♦ excess freight ♦ excess indebtedness ♦ excess letdown heat exchanger ♦ excess luggage ♦ excess of air ♦ excess of births over deaths ♦ excess of deaths over births ♦ excess of liabilities over assets ♦ excess of powers ♦ excess postage ♦ excess pressure ♦ excess profits tax ♦ excess reserve ♦ excess returns ♦ excess supply ♦ excess voltage ♦ excess weight ♦ in excess ♦ in excess of ♦ indulge in an excess of ♦ spherical excess ♦ to excess. Additional references.

Beginning with "excess": excess-of-loss, excess-value.

Afrikaan

suip (drink, drink to excess), drink (drink, drink to excess). (various references)

Albanian

torbullim, teprim (exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, presumption), tepri (exuberance, exuberancy, glut, overplus, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit), tejkalim (overfulfilment), skajshmëri, shtese (additional, augmentative, collateral, extra, relief, subsidiary), papërmbajtje (debauchery, unreserve, unrestraint), i tepruar (de trop, dispensable, disproportionate, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, fabulous, far gone, fulsome, heavy, immoderate, inordinate, lavish, over, profuse, redundant, undue, unreasonable), i tepërt (excessive, excrescent, last, odd, over, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping, waste), i tepërm (excessive, excrescent, last, odd, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping, waste), çrregullim (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, dislocation, disorder, disorganization, distemper, disturbance, foul up, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, muddle, muss, turmoil, upset). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فائض (overabundant, overflow, overflowing, spare, superabundant, superfluous, surplus), ‏فرط (overabundance, overdo, overindulgence, overplus, plethora), ‏مفرط (exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, frightful, immoderate, intemperate, intolerable, overabundant, overmuch, overweening, super, superabundant, superfluous, superlative, too much, unconscionable, undue, unqualified, unreasonable, unrestrained), ‏تجاوز الحدود (bound, outrageous, overstep), ‏زيادة (addition, augment, augmentation, boost, enhancement, expansion, growing, increase, increment, over, overflow, overmuch, plethora, plus, raise, redundance, redundancy, rise, superfluity, top up), ‏إفراط (exorbitance, extreme, intemperance, riot, surfeit), ‏إنغماس (indulgence, spree), ‏إسراف (exaggeration, flamboyance, flamboyancy, improvidence, intemperance, luxury, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, redundance, redundancy, squandering), ‏شطط (hunting, inroads). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свръх (above, over and above, past), разлика (contradistinction, contrast, difference, distance, distinction, inconformity, margin, odds, variance, variation), връхнина, невъздържаност (abandon, abandonment, debauchery, incontinence, licentiousness, temper, unreserve, unrestraint), над нормата, жестокост (barbarity, brutality, cannibalism, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, inhumanity, toughness, truculence), ексцес (intemperance), прекаляване (overindulgence), по-голямо количество, по-голям размер, излишък (overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, overspill, profusion, redundance, redundancy, spilth, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, surplusage), допълнителен (accessary, accessorial, accidental, additional, additive, adjunct, complementary, contributory, expletive, extra, extraordinary, farther, follow up, fresh, further, over, plus, pony, relief, side, subsidiary, supplementary, tributary). (various references)

Chinese 

過量 , 過剩 (surplus), 剩馀. (various references)

Czech

rozdíl (deficiency, difference, differential, disparity, distinction, divide, gulf, odds, variance, variety), přemíra (exuberance, exuberancy, surfeit), přebytek (glut, overflow, overplus, residue, surplus), přílišnost, nestřídmost (greed, intemperance, self-indulgence), nadmìrný (excessive, exuberant, overdone, undue). (various references)

Danish

ranchise, overskydende (in excess). (various references)

Dutch

exces (abundance), eigen risico, uitwas (caruncle, excrescence, outgrowth), uitspatting (debauchery, dissipation), overdaad, in overmaat (in excess), buitensporigheid (abundance). (various references)

Esperanto

eksceso. (various references)

Faeroese

gamansleikur (debauchery, dissipation), flogsan, drykkjuskapur (debauchery, dissipation), ólevnaður. (various references)

Farsi 

فزونی (Amplitude, Extreme, Intensity, Prepayment), زیادی 1 (Extra, Immensity, Immoderacy, Riffraff, Superfluity, Superfluous, Surplus, Undue), زیادتی (Residue, Surplus), افراط (Extravagance, Indulgence, Intemperance, Plethora, Superfluity), اضافه (Access, Increase, Surplus), بی اعتدالی (Extravagance, Immoderacy, Intemperance). (various references)

Finnish

ylimäärä- (in excess), liika- (in excess). (various references)

French

excès, excédent. (various references)

German

ausschreitung (outrage, riot, violence), überschuss (overage, overflow, overplus, superabundance, surplus). (various references)

Greek 

πλεόνασμα (in excess, overplus, surplus). (various references)

Hebrew 

יתור (redundancy, superfluity), יתר (abundance, excessive, more, remainder, rest, superfluous, surplus), יותר (more, over), שפע (abundance, affluence, affluency, exuberance, glut, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, plethora, profusion, riches, superabundance, surfeit, wealth), עו�"ף (balance, left over, plus, redundance, redundancy, superfluous, surfeit, surplus), � פרזות. (various references)

Hungarian

mértéktelenség (excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, incontinence, insobriety, intemperance), többlet (overplus, plus, rasher, redundance, redundancy, surplus), kicsapongás (crapulence, debauchery, dissipation, lecherousness, licentiousness, profligacy, toot, vice). (various references)

Indonesian

ekses, kewalahan, keterlanjuran (excessively), kelebihan (overbalance, surplus). (various references)

Irish

foláir. (various references)

Italian

eccedenza (overbalance, overcompensation, overflow, redundance, redundancy, surplus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過剰 (over-), 超過 (being more than). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のび (burning off the fields, growth, postponement, spread, stretching, surplus), かた (data-type, lagoon, many, model, mold, person, plentiful, shape, shoulder, style, superabundance), かど (corner, edge, gate, immoderation), かじょう (article, articles, clause, condition of the common people, errors, family custom, good wine, item, items, on the shelf, over-, spiral, sweet sake), あまり (balance, fullness, not much, not very, other, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, rest, scraps, surplus, too much), あ�"まり (balance, fullness, not much, not very, other, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, rest, scraps, surplus, too much), よぶ�" (extra, gossip, rumor, surplus), よけい (abundance, blessings, fortunate heredity, something bequeathed to posterity, superfluity, surplus, the rewards of virtue, too much, unnecessary), �'�"がい (extra, implicit, implied, tax reduction, unexpressed), ちょうか (a catch, a hooked fish, being more than, dirge, elegy, house in the middle of a town, leather boots, long boots, long epic song with shamisen accompaniment, merchant's family, morning glow, morning mist, the imperial family or household, type of waka). (various references)

Korean 

과잉 (Overflow). (various references)

Manx

roudaght (exorbitance), rouanys (immorality, lewdness, lust, profligacy, rioting, riotousness, wantonness), balaghys, ass towse (excessive, excessively, vast). (various references)

Norwegian

overskridelse, overmål. (various references)

Pig Latin

excessay

Polish

pić alkohol. (various references)

Portuguese

excesso (abundance, carry over, debauch, extreme, glut, over, overage, overindulgence, overmeasure, overplus, redundance, redundancy, spilth, superfluity, surplus, surplusage). (various references)

Romanian

extremitate (bottom, climax, end, extreme, extremity, outside, termination, tip), exces (abuse, intemperance, nimiety, redundance, redundancy, riot, riotousness, superfluity, surfeit, transgression, violence), excedent (redundance, redundancy, superfluity, surplus), violenţã (fierceness, force, roughness, rudeness, severity, violence), surplus (carry over, gash, overplus, overspill, redundance, redundancy, surcharge, surplus), supraabundenţã (glut, plethora, superabundance, surfeit), lipsã de cumpãtare (insobriety, intemperance), cruzime (barbarity, brutality, callosity, cruelty, feliness, fierceness, inhumanity, savagery), abuz (abuse, encroachment, fraud, intemperance, malfeasence, malversation, misusage, stretch, transgression). (various references)

Russian 

эксцесс (kurtosis), выходка (prank, vagrancy), неумеренность (overindulgence), невоздержанность (incontinence, insobriety, intemperance), лишний (extra, odd, spare, unnecessary, unwanted, waste), излишество (abuse, bells and whistles, luxury, surfeit), излишек (carry over, over, overage, overplus, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, surplusage), избыточный (excrescent, exuberant, over, overabundant, over-abundant, superabundant, supernumerary, verbose), избыток (abundance, exuberance, exuberancy, glut, overabundance, overage, overflow, overplus, overstock, oversupply, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplusage), дополнительный (additional, addl additional, adscititious, anytime more, auxiliary, complementary, extra, further, more, new, obverse, optional, run on, supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Scottish

còrr (eminent, extraordinary; corra, odds : a' chòrr, remainder, the rest, when prefixed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

višak (over, overage, overbalance, over-measure, overrun, surplus, surplusage), neumerenost (insobriety, intemperance). (various references)

Spanish

exceso (extra, glut, overage, overplus, overshoot, redundance, redundancy, spew, surfeit, surplus). (various references)

Swedish

överskott (carry over, in excess, margin, overbalance, overflow, overplus, redundancy, residue, surplus). (various references)

Thai

พฤติกรรมที่เกินขอบเขต, ซึ่งมากเกินไป (inordinate), จำนวนที่มากเกินไป. (various references)

Turkish

taşkınlık (abundance, boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effusion, extravagance, exuberance, exuberancy, flush, frenzy, furor, furore, gush, intemperance, overflowing, rampancy, transport), ilave (accretion, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, annex, appendage, appendix, appurtenance, bye-, extension, extra, insertion, inset, pendant, plusage, plussage, rider, schedule, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, supplementation), fazlalık (bulge, de trop, excrescence, glut, margin, more, overage, overbalance, overplus, oversupply, plus, residuary, super, superfluities, superfluity, supernumerary, surplus, surplusage), fazla (big, de trop, excessive, extra, in excess of, much, out, over, rising of, spare, super-, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, thick, too, unneedful), aşırıya kaçma, aşırılık (deadliness, dissipation, exaggeration, exorbitance, extravagance, extreme, extremism, frenzy, insobriety, intemperance, intenseness, intension, rampancy, vagaries, vagary), ölçüsüzlük (extreme, immoderation, intemperance). (various references)

Ukranian 

надмірність (excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extreme, nimiety, plethora, profusion, rampancy, redundance, redundancy, surfeit), надлишок (glut, nimiety, over, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, redundance, redundancy, spillover, superfluity, surfeit), ексцес, перевищення. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thừa ra, sự vượt quá giới hạn, sự vượt, sự quá mức (excessiveness), sự hơn số lượng vượt quá, số lượng hơn, số dôi, quá mức qui định hơn quá thừa quá. (various references)

Welsh

rhysedd (abundance), rhemp (defect), gormodedd (superfluity), gormod (too many, too much). (various references)

dirig. (various references)

abundantia, abundantiae, abundantiam, effusio, effusione, effusionem, effusiones, excessus, luxuria, luxus, nimietate, redundo. (various references)

superplus. (various references)

surfet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "excess": excessed, excesses, excessing, excessive, excessively, excessiveness, excessivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Excess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eccess, ecs, ences, excelses, excesst, excist, exess, oxcis, Sexcess. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: execs, sexes.

-2 letters: cees, cess, eses, exec, exes, secs, sees.

-3 letters: cee, ess, sec, see, sex.

-4 letters: es, ex.

+1 letter: excises, excuses, exsects.

+2 letters: excessed, excesses, excusers.

+3 letters: exactness, excessing, excessive, exercises, exorcises, exsecants, sixpences.

+4 letters: excelsiors, exclusives, excursuses, exercisers, existences, exocytoses, exorcisers, exoticness, exsiccates, sauceboxes.

+5 letters: complexness, contextless, exactnesses, excessively, inexactness.

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