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Meaning of NIMIETY

Pronunciation:  ni'mIitee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
 
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 Synonyms: embarrassment, overplus, plethora, superfluity
 
 See Also: excess, excessiveness, inordinateness, redundance, redundancy

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis,
adv., too much.]
State of being in excess. [R.]
      There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans.
                                               --Coleridge.
 
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