overabundance

overabundance
I
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. surplus, profusion, superfluity; see excess 1 .
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
excess, glut, surplus, overflow, overkill, plethora, overage, spate, flood, too much, superfluity.
ANT.: shortage, dearth
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: embarrassment, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, plethora, superabundance, superfluity, super-fluousness, surfeit. See EXCESS.

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