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copious | superfluity |

As an adjective copious

is great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.

As a noun superfluity is

the quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.

copious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Great in quantity or number, profuse, abundant; taking place on a large scale.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3. § 18.
    • These loose hints I have thrown together, in order to excite the curiosity of philosophers, and beget a suspicion at least, if not a full persuasion, that this subject is very copious ,
  • Having an abundant supply.
  • Full of thought, information, or matter; exuberant in words, expression, or style.

    • Related terms

    * copiously * copiousness

    References

    superfluity

    English

    Noun

    (superfluities)
  • The quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.
  • Something superfluous, as a luxury.
  • (rare) Collective noun for a group of nuns.
  • * 1905 , Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds , Macmillan and Co, (1905), page 266:
    • These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.
  • * 2011 , Sam Cullen, The Odd Bunnies , unnumbered page:
    • Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.
  • * 2012 , Beth Yarnall, Rush , Crimson Romance (2012), ISBN 9781440554223, unnumbered page:
    • That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.”