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excess

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Synonyms and Antonyms of EXCESS

the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed <a new television season with an excess of sitcoms featuring wisecracking teenagers>

Synonyms bellyful, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, surplusage

Related Words abundance, bounty, plentitude, plenty, profusion, sufficiency; overproduction, overstock

Near Antonyms dearth, lack, scarcity, want

Antonyms deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, undersupply

a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits <the wretched excess that is so often found in the world of show business>

Synonyms excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, nimiety

Antonyms moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness

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