overabundance

noun

over·abun·dance ˌō-vər-ə-ˈbən-dən(t)s

plural overabundances

: a large surplus : excess

an overabundance of options

Between the women's movement and the first large wave of baby boomers, the career track was suddenly clogged with an overabundance of qualified people.—

Phillip Moffitt

overabundant

ˌō-vər-ə-ˈbən-dənt

adjective

Overabundant use of livestock and chicken feed laced with antibiotics is a primary force behind the evolution of drug-resistant strains that then find their way into people. —

Wayne Biddle

Overabundant elk ate trees down to their nubs, leaving beavers with no lumber for their dams, which, in turn, changed the flow of rivers. —

Sara Reardon

overabundantly adverb

The meals … were mainly taken at the hotel and were included in the trip package. We were fed overabundantly three times a day. —

R. V. Denenberg

… Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, an overabundantly plotted melodrama set in 15th-century Paris. —

Tom Gliatto

Examples of overabundance in a Sentence

an overabundance of desserts at a potluck dinner

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Without enough rain, fires could continue to burn through the overabundance of fire fuels like grasses or brush available this year. —

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Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019 The overabundance of content felt like homework to audiences who once embraced all things Marvel and, worse, much of what was being released wasn’t well-liked. —

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