Excessiveness

  

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Excessiveness

Definition: Excessiveness

Excessiveness

Noun

1. Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Excessiveness

Synonyms: excess (n), inordinateness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Excessiveness

English words defined with "excessiveness": Inordinacy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Excessiveness

DomainTitle

Books

  • Harbul khalij : radatu filin zaida wa israfun fil katl wat tadmir (Arabic) Translation of title: The Gulf War: Overreaction & Excessiveness (Part I). (reference)

  • The Gulf War : Overreaction & Excessiveness (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Excessiveness

"Excessiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Excessiveness" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Excessiveness

Language Translations for "excessiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

démesure. (various references)

   

German

  

unmäßigkeit (immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, insobriety, intemperance, piggishness), übertriebenheit (exaggeratedness, exorbitance, extravagance), überteuerung (expensiveness, forcing up, inflation, overcharging, overinflation). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

יתירות (superfluity). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túlzás (exaggeration, excess, extreme, hyperbole, hyperbolism, overstatement, stretching, tall story), szertelenség (diablerie, extravagance, extreme, rampancy), mértéktelenség (excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, incontinence, insobriety, intemperance), mértéknélküliség. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

excessivenessay

   

Ukranian 

  

надмірність (excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extreme, nimiety, plethora, profusion, rampancy, redundance, redundancy, surfeit). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất thừa tính chất quá thể, tính chất quá đáng (fulsomeness), sự quá mức (excess). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Excessiveness

Derivations

Words beginning with "excessiveness": excessivenesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Excessiveness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-n-s-s-s-s-v-x"

-3 letters: sexinesses.

-4 letters: excessive.

-5 letters: ecesises, essences, excesses, sexiness.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-e-i-n-s-s-s-s-v-x"
 

+2 letters: excessivenesses, exclusivenesses, excursivenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Excessiveness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 78 63 65 73 73 69 76 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01111000 01100011 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0078 0063 0065 0073 0073 0069 0076 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39906971858575887180718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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