Posted on 01/02/2014 5:17:24 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
nimiety \nih-MYE-uh-tee\ , noun
excess, redundancy
Example sentences:
Nathan is possessed of a nimiety of get-rich-quick schemes, combined with a paucity of common sense.
"Despite the nimiety of blue lighting and an issue over microphone levels, this was a wonderfully gentle evening of poignant country and folk poetry set to simple melodies that go round and round in your brain."
— From a concert review by Jon Bennett in The Bristol Post, March 18, 2013
Etymology:
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 been part of our language for nearly 450 years. (We borrowed it from Late Latin "nimietas," a noun taken, in turn, from the Latin adjective "nimius," meaning "excessive.") But though "nimiety" is far from overused, it does turn up occasionally and can be considered a valid addition to any writer or reader's vocabulary.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine! It’s a brand new year.
Senior leadership finally woke up to the nimiety in middle management and started canning the underperformers.
We won't have a nimiety of opportunities to do that for ourselves before the government takes that over too.
Morning!
yes, i think hearing from someone they know can have more of an impact. they think it can never happen to them.
That may be what she should do, to speak to high school and college kids about the consequences of drinking too much. It might reduce her anger at the results of her mistake.
at the diBlasio swearing in.
What is what all women long to say?
Thank you Alex, I’ll take Female utterances for 400 !
ROR!
And some really bad plastic surgery....
Unreported locally, but on Drudge, is that the Commissar had the storm troopers keeping the press at bay.
Gee, who would have thunk it.
oh she shows zero signs of plastic surgery, that face is sagging, there is nothing pulled tight there at all. i don’t blame her for not having it, i would respect that. and even the hairstyle is better than the forehead baring styles she has had. It’s not dissimilar from how i wear my hair, actually.
More proof that their stylists hate these women.
Except you wash and comb yours, unlike hildabeast.
I miss Sean Connery on Jeopardy.
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