Superfluity vs. Surfeit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Superfluity and Surfeit
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Definitions
Superfluity
The quality or condition of being superfluous.
Surfeit
Surfeit is a human gene cluster that consists of a group of very tightly linked genes on chromosome 9 that do not share sequence similarity. Genes in this cluster are numbered 1 through 6: SURF1, SURF2, SURF3, SURF4, SURF5, and SURF6.
Superfluity
Something superfluous
Could do without such superfluities as a second car.
Surfeit
An excessive amount of something
A surfeit of food and drink
Superfluity
Overabundance; excess.
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Surfeit
Cause (someone) to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess
I am surfeited with shopping
Superfluity
The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness.
Surfeit
To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.
Superfluity
Something superfluous, as a luxury.
Surfeit
To overindulge.
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Superfluity
(rare) Collective noun for a group of nuns.
Surfeit
Overindulgence in food or drink.
Superfluity
A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth.
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.
Surfeit
The result of such overindulgence; satiety or disgust.
Superfluity
The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
Surfeit
An excessive amount.
Superfluity
Something beyond what is needed; something which serves for show or luxury.
Surfeit
(countable) An excessive amount of something.
A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
Superfluity
Extreme excess;
An embarrassment of riches
Surfeit
(uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
Surfeit
(countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
Surfeit
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
Surfeit
(countable) A group of skunks.
Surfeit
(transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
Surfeit
(transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
She surfeited her children on sweets.
Surfeit
(transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
Surfeit
To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
Surfeit
(transitive) To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
Surfeit
To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
Surfeit
To indulge (in something) to excess.
Surfeit
To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
Surfeit
Excess in eating and drinking.
Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board.
Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
Surfeit
Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
To prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels.
Surfeit
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit.
Surfeit
To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
Surfeit
To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
Surfeit
To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; - often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
Surfeit
To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
Surfeit
The state of being more than full
Surfeit
The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
Surfeit
Eating until excessively full
Surfeit
Supply or feed to surfeit
Surfeit
Indulge (one's appetite) to satiety
