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Definition:

excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence";

immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits;

a quantity much larger than is needed;

the state of being more than full;

more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare;

Hyponyms: extravagance, extravagancy, exorbitance, outrageousness, overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment

Derivational Morphology: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, surfeit, cloy

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