superfluity

English

Noun

superfluity (plural superfluities)

1. The quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.
2. Something superfluous, as a luxury.
3. (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.”

Translations

quality or state of being superfluous

• Czech: zbytečnost (cs) f
• Romanian: superfluitate (ro) f

• Spanish: superfluidad (es) f

something superfluous

• Czech: zbytečnost (cs) f
• French: superflu (fr) m

• Romanian: superfluitate (ro) f
• Swedish: överflöd (sv)