superfluousness
Example Sentences
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You are familiar, I'm sure, with the institution of the gift shop: a business that exists entirely to sell useless treats and temptations, an ode to capitalistic superfluousness.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2022
As investigators picked through the wreckage in Manhattan, Arlington and Shanksville, Pa., the idea of a 9/11 novel sounded obscene in its redundancy, its obviousness, its galling superfluousness.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
The whimsical superfluousness of such stories becomes in the aggregate ninety-nine chapters of “Life,” a massive encyclopedia of the off-kilter quotidian.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2019
And Hollywood’s ever more polarized face-off with him has imbued the season with a heightened sense of both superfluousness and purpose.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2017
Exū′berance, Exū′berancy, quality of being exuberant: an overflowing quantity: superfluousness: outburst.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
