noun, excess, redundancy
"Despite the dimity of blue lighting and an issue over microphone levels, this was a wonderfully gentle evening of poignant country and folk poetry."
Nimiety, there's no scarcity of English words used for too much of a good thing--words like "overkill," "plethora," "superfluity," "surfeit," "surplus," and "preponderance." In fact, you might just feel that "nimiety" itself is a bit superfluous. It's true that we've never used the word excessively, though it has bee part our language for nearly 450 years. (We borrowed it from the Late Latin nimietas, a noun taken, in turn, from the Latin adjective nimbus, meaning "excessive.") But though "nimiety" is far from overused, it does turn up occasionally and can be considered a valid addition to any English speaker's vocabulary.
hugs always
karen charlie and enzo
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