An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
NIMIETY
excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety
(noun) a quantity much larger than is needed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
nimiety (countable and uncountable, plural nimieties)
State of being in excess, more than is needed.
Synonyms
• superfluity
• surfeit
Source: Wiktionary
Ni*mi"e*ty, n. Etym: [L. nimietas, fr. nimius, a., nimis, adv., too much.]
Definition: State of being in excess. [R.] There is a nimiety, a too-muchess, in all Germans. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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