Surplus vs. Surfeit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Surplus and Surfeit
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Definitions
Surplus
An amount of something left over when requirements have been met; an excess of production or supply
Exports of food surpluses
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.
Surplus
More than what is needed or used; excess
Make the most of your surplus cash
The firm told 284 employees that they were surplus to requirements
Surfeit
An excessive amount of something
A surfeit of food and drink
Surplus
Being more than or in excess of what is needed or required
Surplus grain.
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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
Surplus
An amount or quantity in excess of what is needed.
Surfeit
To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.
Surplus
Total assets minus the sum of all liabilities.
Surfeit
To overindulge.
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Surplus
Excess of a corporation's net assets over the face value of its capital stock.
Surfeit
Overindulgence in food or drink.
Surplus
Excess of receipts over expenditures.
Surfeit
The result of such overindulgence; satiety or disgust.
Surplus
That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Surfeit
An excessive amount.
Surplus
Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
Surfeit
(countable) An excessive amount of something.
A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
Surplus
(legal) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
Surfeit
(uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
Surplus
(legal) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
Surfeit
(countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
Surplus
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient.
Surplus population
Surplus words
The latest shipment of goods is surplus to our needs.
Surfeit
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
Surplus
(transitive) To treat as surplus to requirements; to sell off or dismiss from employment, etc.
Surfeit
(countable) A group of skunks.
Surplus
That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Surfeit
(transitive) To fill (something) to excess.
Surplus
Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
Surfeit
(transitive) To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
She surfeited her children on sweets.
Surplus
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
When the price of corn falleth, men give over surplus tillage, and break no more ground.
Surfeit
(transitive) To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
Surplus
A quantity much larger than is needed
Surfeit
To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
Surplus
More than is needed, desired, or required;
Trying to lose excess weight
Found some extra change lying on the dresser
Yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant
Skills made redundant by technological advance
Sleeping in the spare room
Supernumerary ornamentation
It was supererogatory of her to gloat
Delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words
Extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts
Surplus cheese distributed to the needy
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
