| Front | nimiety \nih-MY-uh-tee\ |
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| 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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