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.
I recall his complaints about the superfluity of words in legislation.
There is continued overlapping, continued duplication, continued superfluity of effort and energy.
There is a superfluity of raw wool in this country.
Do not let us have any superfluities which we can do without.
They see with scorn an ever-growing superfluity of officials and inspectors, a daily deterioration in efficiency and a relentless intensification of muddle.
There is one section in our population that has no superfluity, no comfort, and not even necessaries.
Rather, we must set aside superfluities and hindrances, devoting ourselves without further ado to the task in hand.
Do they expect that owners of agricultural property should produce the necessary death duties out of the superfluity of their savings or of their accumulations?
