excessive
adjective
going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree; characterized by excess.
excessiveness
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a word derived from
excessive.
Example Sentences
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Some big institutions have turned increasingly negative on executive pay packages, especially those with the red flags of excessiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
The actors all seem to be having fun, especially Keung as the roguish Skunk, but the best part is the way the movie enthusiastically wallows in the excessiveness of the action.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
My issue now is with the excessiveness I find in holidays and birthdays.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
Its crazy excessiveness wasn’t a 1970s-era lapse in taste; like the horned headdress of Wagner’s Brünnhilde, it was the whole point.
From Time ● Dec. 27, 2016
Geoffrey Malaterra, who outlined the Norman character many centuries ago with much psychological acuteness, insisted on the excessiveness of that gens effrenatissima, the tendency to unite opposite impulses, the taste for contradictory extremes.
From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis
