Exceeding vs Exceedance - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between exceeding and exceedance

is that exceeding is the situation of being in excess while exceedance is an instance where an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by medical or legal practice.

As a verb exceeding

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective exceeding

is prodigious.

As an adverb exceeding

is exceedingly.

exceeding

English

Verb

(head)

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) prodigious

(archaic) exceptional, extraordinary

(archaic) extreme

Adverb

(en adverb)

(archaic) Exceedingly.

*, II.7:

Those which write the life of Augustus Cæsar , note this in his military discipline, that he was exceeding liberall and lavish in his gifts to such as were of any desert.

* 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:

Usage notes

* The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) The situation of being in excess.

* 1812 , Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command , page 198:

I have to say it appears to me in the first place, that the exceedings of expenditure beyond estimate appearing upon that account, do not give to the Grand Canal company the slightest legal right to any public money

References

exceedance

English

Noun

An instance where an action, activity or substance exceeds a limit set by medical or legal practice.

For example, the condition (characterised by duration and degree) where the concentration of a pollutant goes beyond the appropriate air quality standard.