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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXCESS'IVENESS, n. The state or quality of being excessive; excess.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits [syn: excess, excessiveness, inordinateness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see excessive

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Excessive Ex*cess"ive, a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak. Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. -Ex*cess"ive*ness, n.

Moby Thesaurus

abandon, bigotry, boundlessness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, drunkenness, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extortionateness, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremeness, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, fanaticalness, fanaticism, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, monstrousness, nimiety, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overdoing, overenthusiasm, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overreaction, overreligiousness, overzealousness, perfervidness, preposterousness, prodigality, rabidness, radicalism, self-indulgence, swinishness, too much, too-muchness, ultrazealousness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontrol, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, zealotism, zealotry