This week's theme
Illustrated words

This week's words
felicitous
disprize
ineluctable
malinger
nimiety

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ni-MY-i-tee)

MEANING:

noun: Excess or redundancy.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin nimius (too much). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ne (not), which also gave us nil, null, not, never, nothing, nihilism, annihilate, and naughty. Earliest documented use: 1542.

USAGE:

"As he said it, a nimiety of memories came back to him of the sick, the wounded, the dying: disease, war, famine, flood, fire, devastation."
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; A Feast in Exile; Tor; 2001.

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