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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The artist, now 89, draws from the improvisatory impulses of jazz, the power of Abstract Expressionism, the eclectic excessiveness of assemblage and the academic classicism of Renaissance painting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024
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
Now, turning something up to 11 can mean any type of excessiveness, and references have popped up continuously since then, including in “Doctor Who” and the volume control on the Tesla Model S.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
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
She is eminently devoid of excessiveness either in pose or in treatment, with the result that your eye is refreshingly cooled with the delicate process.
From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
