surfeit

SUR-fitnoun

Meaning an amount that is too much; an excess

Memory hook SUR-FEIT: OVER-full. After the party, Kai and Zoe stare at a mountain of candy, far more than they could ever eat: a surfeit of sweets.

After the holidays we had a surfeit of cookies.

In context The town suffered not from a lack of parking but from a surfeit of it; huge empty lots covered land that could have been parks.

Similar excess, glut, overabundance, surplus

Opposite lack, shortage, scarcity

From Old French sorfait, “excess,” from sorfaire (to overdo): sor (over) + faire (to do).

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