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单词 nimiety
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nimietyn.

Brit. /nᵻˈmʌɪᵻti/, U.S. /nəˈmaɪᵻdi/
Forms: 1500s–1600s nimietie, 1600s– nimiety.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nimietās.
Etymology: < classical Latin nimietās excess (2nd cent. a.d.) < nimius excessive (see nimious adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix); compare -iety suffix.
Excess, redundancy, superfluity; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity
un-i-fohOE
surfeita1393
superfluitya1398
over-micklea1400
overmucha1400
nimiety1542
superfluous1552
redundance1572
overflowing1574
overflush1581
overflow1589
overmeasure1591
redundancy1601
a too-much1604
pleonasm1616
overfloat1619
overmuchnessa1637
supernumerariness1652
plusa1721
supervacaneousness1730
supersaturate1860
too-muchness1875
1542 T. Becon Christmas Bankette sig. C.j Although there ought not to be ony sufficiency, much lesse any nimiete in spiritual thinges.
1601 A. Gil Treat. conc. Trinitie 60 That nimietie, or excesse of Goodnes, wherein it was created.
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 204 Man may have his nimieties of expression, his diffluences, redundances..of speech.
1679 C. Ness Protestant Antidote Popery 8 Superstition, which is a nimiety and excess in religion.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 252 He was not only matchless, but even reached the line of nimiety.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 323 There is a nimiety—a too-muchness—in all Germans.
1892 Illustr. London News 17 Dec. 776/1 A more serious blemish..with most modern poetry, is nimiety, the tendency to dilute the general effect by..repetition.
1937 New Statesman 28 Aug. 311/1 A climate conspicuous for a nimiety of rain.
1985 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 443 331 Implicit in this expectation is the distinction between satiety and nimiety; that satiety is satisfying, and not identical with the nausea and distress of overeating.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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