Nir Eyal

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.

American Author

Dambisa Moyo

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.

Zambian Economist

Michael Redhill

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.

Canadian Poet

Martha Beck

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.

Michael Pollan

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.

American Educator

Alvin Toffler

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.

Sandra Tsing Loh

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.

American Writer

Heraclitus

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Greek Philosopher

Surfeit suggests a negative effect of too much, often leading to waste or discomfort.

Negative Connotation

Using 'surfeit' usually indicates that something has been used or consumed wastefully.

Often Implies Waste

Depending on context, surfeit may simply highlight abundance without a strong negative implication.

Not Always Negative

When used as a verb, 'surfeit' relates to overconsumption that causes discomfort or sickness.

Associated With Discomfort

'Surfeit' as a verb may describe overindulgence in emotions, not just physical items.

Emotional Surfeit

Using 'surfeit' implies that the subject actively overindulged, not just passively encountered excess.

Causative Implication

 operation of course it lacks funding but I think they're doing very important work because where we have a surfeit of technology in the cybersecurity industry we have a

Surfeit

Negative Connotation

Often Implies Waste

Not Always Negative

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