Hypertext Webster Gateway: "excessiveness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\, a. [Cf. F. excessif.]
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
excessiveness
n : immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or
permitted limits [syn: {excess}, {inordinateness}]
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