Advertisement

nimiety (n.)

"excess, redundancy, state of being too much," 1560s, from Latin nimietas "excessiveness," from nimius "beyond measure, excessive," from nimis (adv.) "too much, beyond measure, excessively," from *ne-mis- "not little," from PIE root *ne- "not" + *mi- "little," from PIE root *mei- (2) "small."

Others are reading

Advertisement
Definitions of nimiety from WordNet

nimiety (n.)
a quantity much larger than is needed;
Synonyms: excess / surplus / surplusage
From wordnet.princeton.edu