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superfluousity (countable and uncountable, plural superfluousities) (rare, possibly nonstandard)

1. (uncountable) The state of being superfluous; superfluousness; superfluity.
   • 2001 February 18, Harold Wood, “A permanent fix.”, in aus.culture.true-blue‎ (Usenet):

     And not for you the acts of the poncy punctuation police who search for a comma or full stop out of place, :-) in another's contribution in order to depreciate their intelligent ideas! :-) And heaven forbid you never find joy in pointing out any superfluousity of parentheses, or the atrophy accompanying asterisk abuse! :-)

   • 2006 January 5, Hughes., “Kieron Gillen Needs To Die”, in uk.games.video.misc‎ (Usenet):

     Verily, evisceration would be apropos for the egregious superfluousity of his floral verbiage.

   • 2008 July 9, Joseph Littleshoes, “THE SINISTER MAN NAMED ALIESTER CROWLEY WAS NOT THE BEAST = 777 in Alpha-Reduced”, in alt.bible‎ (Usenet):

     In an attempt to weed out any superfluousity i posted a response to your above only to alt.magick and soc.culture.usa in an attempt to cut down on the signal to noise ratio.

1. (countable) Something superfluous.
   • 1987 January 29, s...@bfly-vax.bbn.com.uucp, “Consciousness?”, in mod.ai‎ (Usenet):

     - Does the theory account for the data?
     - Is the theory simple? Are there unnecessary superfluousities?
     - Is the theory useful? Does it provide the basis for a fruitful program of research?

   • 2002 March 26, Ed Sheehan, “Knee deep in correlatives?”, in comp.databases.pick‎ (Usenet):

     It will analyze your A-correlatives and de-nest all the parenthetical elements into referenced levels, so you can spot missing parens/brackets, double nested superfluousities, and generally see the structure of your oh-so-carefully-crafted work of art.

   • 2005 August 25, Bill Shatzer, “Conservative Scientists Push New Theory of Intelligent Falling in Schools”, in or.politics‎ (Usenet):

     The list of inefficiencies, superfluousities, lethalities and downright *bad* design could be expanded almost without limit.