excesses
- 1Plural of excess.
The report condemned the financial excesses of the bank's executives.
Historians often blame the regime's collapse on its violent excesses.
Note
Only the countable uses of excess take an -es ending, and the plural tends to gather around conduct: acts of overindulgence, the immoderate behavior of a regime or a boardroom, rather than one measured amount beyond a limit. The arithmetic and insurance meanings pluralize too, as in the excesses on two British policies, but there the word stays a sum, and context usually shows which kind is meant.
excesses is a form of excess
excess, noun: The condition of going beyond a reasonable limit; more than what is needed, proper, or sufficient. Full entry
- Forms
- excessexcesses plural
- Spelling
- excess → excesses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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