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nimiety

\nih-MY-uh-tee\, noun:
The state of being too much; excess.
名词 n.
1.过多

What a nimiety of . . . riches have we here! I am quite undone.
-- James J. Kilpatrick, "Buckley: The Right Word", National Review, December 23, 1996

Just as daily life contains all the comforts of what one owns, there is also a natural shedding or forgetting and a natural dulling, otherwise one becomes burdened with a sense of nimiety, a sense (as Kenneth Clark put it in his autobiography) of the "too-muchness" of life.
-- Nicholas Poburko, "Poetry Past And Present: F. T. Prince's Walks in Rome", Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, January 1, 1999

Nimiety is from Late Latin nimietas, from Latin nimius, "very much, too much," from nimis, "excessively."



A new broom sweeps clean.

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A hungry donkey was tied to a rope eight  feet  long. About thirty feet away there was a basket of fresh carrots. The donkey wanted to eat those carrots.How did he reach them?
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