Definition of Excess

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Excess

The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

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Excess Quotations

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Plutarch

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin

Excess Translations

excess in Italian is eccedenza, eccedenza
excess in Latin is redundo
excess in Spanish is exceso

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