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excessiveness

noun

excessiveness is spelled E-X-C-E-S-S-I-V-E-N-E-S-S: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, excessiveness means “The property of being excessive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of excessiveness is excessivenesses.

How many letters and syllables are in excessiveness?

Letters13: E-X-C-E-S-S-I-V-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 42 million words; the 199,120th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is excessiveness?

Excessiveness appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of excessiveness

  • excessivenesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does excessiveness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being excessive.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Excessiveness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense property of being excessive:

LanguageWords
GermanÜbermäßigkeit

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does excessiveness come from?

From excessive + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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