nimiety
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Etymology edit
Latin nimietās, from nimius (“excessive”) and nimis (“excessively”).
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Noun edit
nimiety (countable and uncountable, plural nimieties)
- State of being in excess, more than is needed.
- June 2, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk
- There is a nimiety, - a too-muchness - in all Germans.
- 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Clips from a Life, →ISBN:
- I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.
- June 2, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk
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- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000