Today's Word "nimiety"
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nimiety \nih-MY-uh-tee\ (noun) - The state of being too much; excess.
"Just as daily life contains all the comforts of what one owns, there is also a natural shedding or forgetting and a natural dulling, otherwise one becomes burdened with a sense of nimiety, a sense (as Kenneth Clark put it in his autobiography) of the 'too-muchness' of life." -- Nicholas Poburko, 'Poetry Past And Present: F. T. Prince's Walks in Rome', Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, January 1, 1999
Nimiety is from Late Latin nimietas, from Latin nimius, "very much, too much," from nimis, "excessively."
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