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Definition of Superfluousness

Superfluousness
Superfluous Su*per"flu*ous, a. [L. superfluus overflowing; super over, above + fluere to flow. See Super-, and Fluent.] More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price. --Shak. An authority which makes all further argument or illustration superfluous. --E. Everett. Superfluous interval (Mus.), an interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone. Syn: Unnecessary; useless; exuberant; excessive; redundant; needless. -- Su*per"flu*ous*ly, adv. -- Su*per"flu*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Superfluousness from wikipedia

- Look up superfluous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: Superfluous precision, the use...
- The superfluous man (Russian: лишний человек, líshniy chelovék, "extra person") is an 1840s and 1850s Russian literary concept derived from the Byronic...
- The Diary of a Superfluous Man (Russian: Дневник лишнего человека, Dnevník líshnego chelovéka) is an 1850 novella by the Russian author Ivan Turgenev...
- Superfluous People (German:Überflüssige Menschen) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Aleksandr Razumny and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Camilla von Hollay...
- Practice, p.89-90. Thurgate & Sons. Digitized Aug 16, 2007. Archaic: superfluous or extreme sharp sixth. Benward & Saker (2003), p.92. Paul, Oscar (1885)...
- self-identify as "libertarian". His best-known books are Memoirs of a Superfluous Man and Our Enemy, the State. Throughout his life, Nock was a deeply...
- interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by...
- Significant figures, also referred to as significant digits or sig figs, are specific digits within a number written in positional notation that carry...
- long-running nighttime news broadcast 60 Minutes displays this purported superfluousness of anchors, insofar as it has no central figurehead in favor of many...
- piece". He ended his review with "The film is defined by an overruling superfluousness — it's the sort of thing people might be satisfied with watching from...