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[syn: excess, excessiveness, inordinateness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
excessif.]
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
[1913 Webster]
Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak.
Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous;
immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See
Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -Ex*cess"ive*ness,
n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
excessiveness
n 1: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or
permitted limits [syn: excess, excessiveness,
inordinateness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "excessiveness":
abandon, bigotry, boundlessness, crapulence, crapulency,
crapulousness, drunkenness, egregiousness, enormousness,
exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extortionateness,
extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremeness, extremes,
extremism, extremity, fabulousness, fanaticalness, fanaticism,
giantism, gigantism, gluttony, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy,
immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline,
indulgence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance,
intemperateness, monstrousness, nimiety, outrageousness,
overdevelopment, overdoing, overenthusiasm, overgreatness,
overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness,
overreaction, overreligiousness, overzealousness, perfervidness,
preposterousness, prodigality, rabidness, radicalism,
self-indulgence, swinishness, too much, too-muchness,
ultrazealousness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontrol,
undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, unrestraint,
zealotism, zealotry