Synonyms for excess
ɪkˈsɛs, ˈɛk sɛsex·cess

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1. excessnoun

   Antonyms:
   deficiency

2. excessnoun

   More than is normal, necessary or specified

   Antonyms:
   deficiency

3. excessnoun

   Antonyms:
   deficiency

4. excessnoun

   Antonyms:
   deficiency

5. excessnoun

   Antonyms:
   deficiency

6. excessnoun

   Antonyms:
   deficiency

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1. excess

   Excess is more than enough of anything, and, since this in very many cases indicates a lack either of judgment or of self-control, the word is used frequently in an unfavorable sense. Careless expenditure in excess of income is extravagance; we may have also extravagance of language, professions, etc. As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others. Overplus and superabundance denote in the main a satisfactory, and superfluity an undesirable, excess; lavishness and profusion, a generous, bountiful, or amiable excess; as, a profusion of fair hair; lavishness of hospitality. Surplus is neutral, having none of the unfavorable meaning that often attaches to excess; a surplus is that which remains over after all demands are met. Redundance or redundancy refers chiefly to literary style, denoting an excess of words or matter. Excess in the moral sense is expressed by dissipation, prodigality, intemperance, etc.

   Synonyms:
   dissipation, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

   Antonyms:
   dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. excess

   Synonyms:
   advance, increase, abundance, redundancy, superfluity, extravagance, surplus, debauchery, intemperance

   Antonyms:
   deficiency, failure, shortcoming, insufficiency, temperance, sobriety

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. excess, surplus, surplusage, nimietynoun

   a quantity much larger than is needed

   Synonyms:
   surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, surplus, nimiety, overindulgence

   Antonyms:
   necessary

2. excess, excessiveness, inordinatenessnoun

   immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

   Synonyms:
   surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, surplus, nimiety, overindulgence

   Antonyms:
   necessary

3. surfeit, excess, overabundancenoun

   the state of being more than full

   Synonyms:
   surfeit, surplusage, overabundance, overmuchness, inordinateness, glut, excessiveness, oversupply, repletion, surplus, nimiety, superabundance, overindulgence, overmuch

   Antonyms:
   necessary

4. overindulgence, excessadjective

   excessive indulgence

   "the child was spoiled by overindulgence"

   Synonyms:
   surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, surplus, nimiety, overindulgence

   Antonyms:
   necessary

5. excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplusadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   superfluous, senseless, surplus, unembellished, supererogatory, scanty, spare, otiose, wasted, pleonastic, unornamented, extra, free, plain, redundant, supernumerary, purposeless, additional, tautological, special, tautologic, trim, bare(a), bare, pointless

   Antonyms:
   necessary

Matched Categories

1. • Fullness
   • Immoderation
   • Overabundance

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1. excessnoun

   Synonyms:
   superfluity, redundance, redundancy, superabundance

2. excessnoun

   Synonyms:
   surplus, overplus, remainder

3. excessnoun

   Synonyms:
   intemperance, dissipation, debauchery

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1. excessnoun

   Synonyms:
   superabundance, superfluity, redundancy, redundance, overplus, surplus, surplusage, residue, remainder exuberance, rampancy, overdoing, exorbitance, immoderation, debauchery, dissoluteness, intemperance, immoderation

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1. List of paraphrases for "excess":

   surplus, excessive, glut, surfeit, surpluses, exceeding, superior, overstock, upper, redundant, more, exceedance

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1. Peter Dixon:

   The upside potential for commodity prices and commodity-related stocks is limited as there is still a lot of excess supply of commodities. It's not a good time to increase your exposure to the sector.

2. Tamara Duker Freuman:

   But there's this popular idea that if you feel bloated or have a lot of gas, that you are over-represented by the' bad' disease-causing bacteria and have too little of the' good' bacteria... and that there is some sort of imbalance causing you to have excess gas or discomfort or constipation.

3. Percy Wynham Lewis:

   Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

4. Fani Willis:

   We walked into an office with an excess of 11,000 unindicted cases, in addition to that, we already had another 12,000 that were indicted and were working their way through the court system.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.