Synonyms of excesses

excesses 1 of 2

noun

plural of excess

as in surpluses

the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed

a new television season with an excess of sitcoms featuring wisecracking teenagers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• surpluses
• abundances
• sufficiencies
• overflows
• overabundances
• surfeits
• overages
• superfluities
• oversupplies
• overmuch
• redundancies
• bounties
• surplusages
• overkills
• pluses
• fat
• superabundances
• bellyfuls
• plenties
• overpluses
• plethoras
• profusions
• overstocks
• plentitudes
• overproductions

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• deficiencies
• deficits
• insufficiencies
• lacks
• scarcities
• undersupplies
• wants
• dearths

excesses

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of excess

as in axes

Related Words

• axes
• downsizes
• lays off
• furloughs
• trims
• cans
• sacks
• fires
• turns off
• discharges
• musters out
• releases
• removes
• boots (out)
• dismisses
• pink-slips
• kicks out
• bounces
• retires
• drums (out)
• cashiers
• terminates
• unseats
• chucks (out)
• throws out
• separates

Dissimilar Words

• retains
• takes on
• signs (up or on)
• employs
• keeps
• hires
• engages
• contracts
• recruits
• rehires
• reemploys
• subcontracts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of excesses

Noun

His conservatism was seen by many as an antidote to the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

But Coppola’s film, irrespective of its fatal flaws and excesses, at least meant something in the context of his career. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

In Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver, a world of human complexity has been flattened deliberately to remove the inconvenient excesses of emotion and feeling. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Over his shoulder was an enormous portrait of the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader Carrie Nation, an icon of resistance to the excesses of the first Gilded Age, when similar discontent had roiled the prairies. — Kyle Paoletta, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

At the exact same time, young, upstart groups like the Ramones and the Clash were forming in response to the corporatization of rock, the bloated egos of its biggest stars, and the excesses of prog with the back-to-basics minimalism of punk. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026

When companies won’t do the right thing themselves, litigation has proven effective at checking their excesses. — Susan Morrisey, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026

Ancient critics could never quite agree on the direction of causality between Euripides’ formal excesses and the political decay of Athens around him — and Lichtenberg thinks that same ambiguity now surrounds AI. — Aris Alexander, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026

In some cases, even documentation of the state's excesses invites intimidation. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026