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Definition of Overabundance

1. Noun. The state of being more than full.

2. Noun. A quantity that is more than what is appropriate. "We received an inundation of email"

Definition of Overabundance

1. Noun. An excess of that which is needed or is appropriate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overabundance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overabundance

over the hills and far away over the moon over the sea over the top over the transom over the wicket over there over time over to overable

overabound overabounded overabounding overabounds overabstract overabundance overabundances overabundant overabundantly overaccelerate

overaccelerated overaccelerates overaccelerating overaccentuate overaccentuated overaccentuates overaccommodate overaccommodated overaccommodates overaccommodating

Literary usage of Overabundance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Indigestions ; or, Diseases of the digestive organs functionally treated by Thomas King Chambers (1870)
"CASE XLIV.1—A medical man complained to me a year or so ago of what he called "overabundance of gastric juice."—"Why do you call it overabundance of gastric ..."

2. Principles of Political Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1919)
"Water in swampy land is an example of overabundance ; in desert land, of underabundance. Manure in a city livery stable is an equally good example of ..."

3. Principles of Political Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1919)
"Water in swampy land is an example of overabundance ; in desert land, of underabundance. Manure in a city livery stable is an equally good example of ..."

4. A Late Triassic Footprint Fauna from the Culpeper Basin, Northern Virginia by Robert E. Weems (1987)
"The apparent overabundance of large carnivores may have resulted from collecting ... Except for the overabundance of large carnivores, however, the relative ..."

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