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overplusage

overplusage noun: overplus; excess.

Noun

overplusage (countable and uncountable, plural overplusages)

  1. Overplus; excess.
    • Soho became an attracting and eradiating centre of scientific mechanism and artistic taste and skill, which not only supplied the manufacturing industries of Birmingham with their remarkable and diversified faculties, but diffused the overplusage throughout the kingdom and the world.1868, Walks in the Black Country and its Green Border-Land (Chapter 7, page 107)
    • Under certain conditions, an overplusage of feminine elements in a masculine portion of mind will produce a poet.1896, The Esoteric, volume 9, page 156

Forms of overplusage

pluraloverplusages

Origin of overplusage

From overplus + -age.

Questions about overplusage

What does overplusage mean?
Overplusage means overplus; excess.
What part of speech is overplusage?
Overplusage is a noun.
What is the plural of overplusage?
The plural of overplusage is overplusages.

Words near overplusage in the dictionary

  1. overplucking
  2. overplucks
  3. overplump
  4. overplumpness
  5. overplus
  6. overplusage
  7. overplusages
  8. overpluses
  9. overplussage
  10. overplussages
  11. overplusses

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