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Definition of Excess

Excess The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. Related Definitions: Amount, An, Another, Appetite, As, Being, Between, Beyond, By, Degree, Difference, Dissipation, Duty, Excess, Extravagance, Going, Immoderateness, In, Indulgence, Intemperance, Is, Light, Measure, Moderation, Natural, Necessity, Number, Numbers, Of, One, Or, Other, Over, Proper, Prover, Remainder, State, Sufficiency, Superabundance, Superfluity, Surpassing, That, The, Thing, Transgression, Two, Undue, Usual, What, Which

Excess Quotations The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. Terence There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato

Excess Translations excess in Italian is eccedenza, eccedenza excess in Latin is redundo excess in Spanish is exceso

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