superabundance

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superabundance

Four-year-olds have a superabundance of energy.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • An excessive or extremely large quantity; an amount that is more than what is needed, desired, or appropriate. It refers to a state of being far more than sufficient, often to the point of being overwhelming or superfluous.
Examples of Usage
  • Noun:
    • The garden produced a superabundance of tomatoes this year.
    • After the announcement, there was a superabundance of applications for the single position.
    • The report was criticized for its superabundance of technical jargon, making it hard to understand.
Advanced Usage
  • "a superabundance of": This is the most common collocation, used to introduce the thing that exists in excessive quantity.
    • The festival was marked by a superabundance of food, music, and color.
  • Used in formal or literary contexts to emphasize extreme excess.
    • The superabundance of choices in the modern marketplace can be paralyzing.
Variants and Related Words
  • Superabundant (adj): Existing in very large amounts; excessive.
    • The region has superabundant natural resources.
  • Abundance (n): A very large quantity of something. (Note: "Superabundance" is stronger, implying excess beyond a plentiful "abundance").
  • Overabundance (n): A synonym meaning an excessive amount. (Very similar in meaning and usage to "superabundance").
Synonyms
  • Surfeit: An excessive amount of something.
  • Plethora: A large or excessive amount of something.
  • Glut: An excessively abundant supply of something.
  • Excess: An amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable.
Antonyms
  • Scarcity: The state of being scarce or in short supply.
  • Dearth: A scarcity or lack of something.
  • Deficiency: A lack or shortage.
Related Idioms and Phrases
  • "Embarrassment of riches": An idiom meaning so much of a good thing that it becomes a problem, closely related to the concept of a .
    • With three great job offers, she faced an embarrassment of riches.
superabundance

Four-year-olds have a superabundance of energy.

Noun
  1. a quantity that is more than what is appropriate
    • four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy
    • we received an inundation of email

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