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.

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