Excessiveness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excessiveness
       n : immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or
           permitted limits [syn: {excess}, {inordinateness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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