Excess
Excess noun - The state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed.
Usage example: a new television season with an excess of sitcoms featuring wisecracking teenagers
Plus and excess are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plus" instead the word "Excess" as a noun or an adjective.
Nearby Words: excessive, excessively
Plus
Plus noun - The state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed.
Usage example: the supply of cranberries is greatly in plus of the demand for them in the market
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Plus, there's plenty of oxygen left afterwards, and no excess CO 2.
Source: No Endor Holocaust -
In fact, the whole of the CLAMP campus contains schools from kindergarten through highly advanced university, and houses in excess of ten thousand students, plus various other people.
Source: High School - Thirteen- and fifteen-car wrecks are simply a fact of life in NASCAR, especially at the two restrictor plate tracks (Daytona and Talladega), where wrecks in excess of twenty-five plus cars are a fact of life.
Source: Disaster Dominoes
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Plus and Excess. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/excess/plus
Excess & Plus. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/excess/plus>.
Plus or Excess. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/excess/plus.
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