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Excess vs Redundancy - What's the difference?

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Excess is a related term of redundancy.


As nouns the difference between excess and redundancy

is that excess is the state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light while redundancy is the state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.

As an adjective excess

is more than is normal, necessary or specified.

excess

English

Noun

(es) (Spherical excess)
  • The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
  • * , King John , act 4, scene 2:
  • To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet, . . .
    Is wasteful and ridiculous excess .
  • * , "Jealosy", in The Poetical Works of William Walsh (1797), page 19 (Google preview):
  • That kills me with excess' of grief, this with ' excess of joy.
  • The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
  • The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
  • An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
  • * :
  • And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess .
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book III:
  • Fair Angel, thy desire . . .
    . . . leads to no excess
    That reaches blame
  • (geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
  • (British, insurance) A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
  • Synonyms

    * (qualifier) (l)

    Antonyms

    * deficiency

    Adjective

    (-)
  • More than is normal, necessary or specified.
  • Derived terms

    * excess baggage

    See also

    * usury

    redundancy

    Noun

    (redundancies)
  • The state of being redundant; a superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language; excessive wordiness.
  • Duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
  • * 2006 , Lauren Bean, Richard E. Friedman, Chapter 5: School Safety in the Twenty First Century: Adapting to New Security Challenges Post-9/11'', James J. F. Forest (editor), ''Homeland Security: Protecting America?s Targets , Volume 2: Public Spaces and Social Institutions, page 108,
  • Staff redundancy is needed in the event that a supervisor and key unit supervisors are not present or unable to act in an emergency.
  • Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
  • The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
  • * 1981 , New Zealand House of Representatives. Parliamentary Debates , Volume 442, page 4212,
  • Has he received any representation from Air New Zealand management about redundancy' proposals for Air New Zealand staff; and, if so, do these proposals include ' redundancy agreements?
  • * 1983 , UK House of Commons, Papers by Command , Volume 40, page lvi,
  • The potential savings did not take into account once-and-for-all staff redundancy costs of £16.5 million and unspecified costs involved in increasing stock levels.
  • * 2003 , K. Brendow, Restructuring Estonia?s Oil Shale Industry: What Lessons from the Restructuring the Coal Industries in Central and Eastern Europe?'', '' , page 307,
  • In Estonia, in addition, the ethnical aspects of staff redundancy programmes have to be taken into account.
  • (label) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being redundant) redundance (rare), pro-chrono continuum (rare), superfluity, superfluousness * (thing that is redundant) dead wood, superfluity * (duplication in case of transmission error) * (state of being unemployed) retirement * (instance or act of dismissal) sacking

    Antonyms

    * (state of being redundant) non-redundancy * (state of being unemployed) employment * (instance or act of dismissal) hiring