0 an amount of something that is more than is needed or wanted, or the state of being more than is wanted or needed:
The new director has said that there is a superfluity of staff in the organization, and that cuts must be made.
There is so much materialistic superfluity in today's society that retailers are desperate to push any product that the typical household does not already possess.
We have a superfluity of restaurants (45 within a quarter mile of the Tube) but it is a mixed community.
The text is full of barbarisms, tautologies, and superfluities.
Such structure suggests an emotional superfluity flowing over the normal sestina.
It was the contribution to the logistics on site which made these ornaments acceptable where they otherwise would have been rejected as designers' superfluity.
While the various cases are carefully distinguished, the overall superfluity of devices is suspicious.
In this approach the system can acquire what it needs according to its application and ignore superfluities, or irrelevant or intemperate knowledge.
