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Superfluity vs Superfluousness - What's the difference?

superfluity | superfluousness |

Superfluousness is a synonym of superfluity.



As nouns the difference between superfluity and superfluousness

is that superfluity is the quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance while superfluousness is the state or quality of being superfluous.

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.”

    superfluousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being superfluous.

    • Usage notes

    * The term superfluity is more common and preferred by some speakers because it uses a suffix of the same root language as the original word.