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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Other oil companies paid an excess of $3 million in addition to the crossing fee to accelerate their passage in the face of soaring oil prices.—
Alma Solis,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026 -
This spike is a Herbig–Haro object (HH 399, specifically) — a jet of material launched by a growing protostar accreting too much matter and ejecting the excess along its rotational axis.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Nimiety.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nimiety. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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