Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.

    The excess of heavy water was given away to the neighbouring country.

    I leaped up in an excess of enthusiasm.

    Überfluss, Völlerei

    превыше́ниеprevyšénije, невозде́ржанностьnevozdéržannostʹ, неуме́ренностьneumérennostʹ

    на́дмірnádmir

    the state of being more than full

  2. (countable, uncountable)The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.

    The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

    Überschuss, Übermaß

    изли́шекizlíšek, избы́токizbýtok

    на́дмірnádmir

  3. (countable, uncountable)An act of eating or drinking more than enough.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.

    эксце́ссekscéss

  5. (UK, countable, uncountable)A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.

    Eigenbeteiligung, Selbstbeteiligung, Zuzahlung

    франши́заfranšíza

Examples

75 sentences
  1. He tends to do everything to excess.

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  2. He drinks to excess.

    Він забагато п’є.

    ruОн слишком много пьёт.

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  3. She praised her husband to excess.

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  4. How much per kilo for excess?

    ruСколько за каждый лишний килограмм?

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  5. In charity there is no excess.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
state of surpassing limits:
Русский
By meaning 5
state of surpassing limits:
undue indulgence of the appetite:
degree by which one thing exceeds another:
geometry: spherical excess:
insurance condition:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
state of surpassing limits:
undue indulgence of the appetite:
degree by which one thing exceeds another:
insurance condition:

Origin

From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus

From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed.

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