Surfeit
noun
An excess or too much of something.
There was a surfeit of food at the party.
Often appears as...
- surfeit of food
- surfeit of wealth
verb
To have an excess of something, usually causing discomfort or dislike.
He surfeited on cake, and then felt ill.
Often appears as...
- surfeit on food
- surfeit on sweets
noun
An excess or too much of something.
There was a surfeit of food at the party.
Often appears as...
- surfeit of food
- surfeit of wealth
verb
To have an excess of something, usually causing discomfort or dislike.
He surfeited on cake, and then felt ill.
Often appears as...
- surfeit on food
- surfeit on sweets
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Surfeit suggests a negative effect of too much, often leading to waste or discomfort.
The surfeit of options paralyzed us from making a choice.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Implies Waste
Using 'surfeit' usually indicates that something has been used or consumed wastefully.
The city's surfeit of abandoned buildings is a sad sight.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Depending on context, surfeit may simply highlight abundance without a strong negative implication.
In spring, there's a surfeit of blooms in the countryside.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Surfeit suggests a negative effect of too much, often leading to waste or discomfort.
The surfeit of options paralyzed us from making a choice.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Implies Waste
Using 'surfeit' usually indicates that something has been used or consumed wastefully.
The city's surfeit of abandoned buildings is a sad sight.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Depending on context, surfeit may simply highlight abundance without a strong negative implication.
In spring, there's a surfeit of blooms in the countryside.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Surfeit suggests a negative effect of too much, often leading to waste or discomfort.
The surfeit of options paralyzed us from making a choice.
Pro Tip 2/3Often Implies Waste
Using 'surfeit' usually indicates that something has been used or consumed wastefully.
The city's surfeit of abandoned buildings is a sad sight.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Depending on context, surfeit may simply highlight abundance without a strong negative implication.
In spring, there's a surfeit of blooms in the countryside.
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Nir Eyal
American Author
If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.
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Dambisa Moyo
Zambian Economist
A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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Michael Redhill
Canadian Poet
Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.
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Martha Beck
American Author
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.
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Alvin Toffler
American Author
People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.
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Sandra Tsing Loh
American Writer
Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs.
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Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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Nir Eyal
American Author
If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.
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Dambisa Moyo
Zambian Economist
A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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Michael Redhill
Canadian Poet
Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.
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Martha Beck
American Author
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.
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Alvin Toffler
American Author
People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.
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Sandra Tsing Loh
American Writer
Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their pelts covered in Oreo crumbs.
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Heraclitus
Greek Philosopher
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
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