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superfluity

[soo-per-floo-i-tee] / ˌsu pərˈflu ɪ ti /




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Alongside the Spanish colonial homes, the scene is a picturesque look into wealth, opulence and superfluity that only a select few Angelenos can afford.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025

Under low light, these faded, wispy clippings from the cutting-room floor suggest a superfluity of ideas that might have supplied a lifetime of inspiration to other artists.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

So much gist, in fact, that it raises the question: Can there be such an abundance of gist that at some point it ceases to be gist and starts being superfluity?

From Slate • May 6, 2019

With “Meal Ticket,” the Coens drive to ironic extremes a notion that John Ford placed at the center of several movies: the impotence and superfluity of cultural refinement in the raw and rugged West.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 14, 2018

Hoover in 1905, a mere superfluity not voiding copyright.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers




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