nimiety
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About Our Definitions: All forms of a word (noun, verb, etc.) are now displayed on one page.ni·mi·e·ty
noun \ni-ˈmī-ə-tē\ plural ni·mi·e·ties
Definition of NIMIETY
: excess, redundancy
Examples of NIMIETY
- <the artist's ingrained nimiety results in cloying pictures of cute kids holding even cuter animals>
Origin of NIMIETY
Late Latin nimietas, from Latin nimius too much, adjective, from nimis, adverb
First Known Use: circa 1564
Related to NIMIETY
- Synonyms
- excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, excess
- Antonyms
- moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness
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