as in excessiveness
a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits the artist's ingrained nimiety results in cloying pictures of cute kids holding even cuter animals

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excess
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  • Instead of the oil-baron excess of Dallas or the leather-and-chrome bravado of contemporary money dramas like Billions, Carter favors seductively austere minimalism and high-ticket abstract art.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
  • And pretty much everyone drank to excess.
    Kate Belli, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Nimiety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nimiety. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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