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English Dictionary: nimiety by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nimiety
n
  1. a quantity much larger than is needed [syn: excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nimiety \Ni*mi"e*ty\, n. [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis,
      adv., too much.]
      State of being in excess. [R.]
  
               There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans.
                                                                              --Coleridge.
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