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Nimiety Nih My Uh Tee Noun Excess Redundancy Latin Nimius Ultimately

Nimiety refers to an excess or redundancy of something.

Nimiety refers to an excess or redundancy of something.

Front nimiety \nih-MY-uh-tee\
Back noun
Excess or redundancy.

[From Latin nimius (too much). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ne (not), which also gave us nil, null, not, never, nothing, nihilism, annihilate, and naughty. Earliest documented use: 1542.]

"As he said it, a nimiety of memories came back to him of the sick, the wounded, the dying: disease, war, famine, flood, fire, devastation." - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; A Feast in Exile; Tor; 2001.

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