Nimiety

2 definitions found

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

  Nimiety \Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis,
     adv., too much.]
     State of being in excess. [R.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           There is a nimiety, a too-muchness, in all Germans.


                                                    --Coleridge.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nimiety
       n : a quantity much larger than is needed [syn: {excess}, {surplus},
            {surplusage}]