Excessive vs Abundance - What's the difference?
excessive | abundance |
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
A large quantity; many.
An overflowing fullness or ample sufficiency; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; plentifulness.
* (rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Wealth; affluence; plentiful amount of resources.
Frequency, amount, ratio of something within a given environment or sample.
(card games) A bid to take nine or more tricks in solo whist.
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As an adjective excessive
is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.As a noun abundance is
a large quantity; many .excessive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* insufficient * deficientDerived terms
* excessive numberabundance
English
(wikipedia abundance)Alternative forms
* (obsolete) abundaunce * (obsolete) habundance * (obsolete) boundance * (card games) abondanceNoun
(en noun)- It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state.