surfeit
an excessive amount of something
Word origin: From Old French surfaire, to overdo.
Surfeit in a sentence
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A surfeit of options left customers unable to choose.
The archive offered the historian a surfeit of primary sources, so much that mere cataloging consumed the first year of research.
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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.
Using “surfeit” well
Surfeit denotes an excessive amount, often one so large it cloys or sickens, unlike a neutral abundance. It contrasts sharply with scarcity or dearth.
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