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Oversupply vs Superfluity - What's the difference?

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Oversupply is a related term of superfluity.


As nouns the difference between oversupply and superfluity

is that oversupply is an excessive supply while superfluity is the quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.

As a verb oversupply

is to supply more than is needed.

oversupply

English

Verb

  • To supply more than is needed

    • Noun

    (oversupplies)
  • An excessive supply.
  • *2012 , (Jurek Martin), ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review , 401:
  • *:He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.

    • 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.”