Noun: excess
| Singular | excess |
| Plural | excesses |
Sample Sentences
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The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.
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I leaped up in an excess of enthusiasm.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
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To throw a perfume on the violet, […]
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Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:]
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That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. [c. 1690, William Walsh, "Jealosy", in The Poetical Works of William Walsh (1797), page 19 (Google preview)]
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[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain. [2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 54:]
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The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
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And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:18:]
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Fair Angel, thy desire . . .
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. . . leads to no excess
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That reaches blame [1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like excess
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed. See: Latin Nouns '
excessus'.
Verbs referencing "excess"
Finnish Nouns
eksessi.