surfeit
C1CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
An excessive amount of something, especially of food or drink.
A surfeit of rich pastries left the whole table feeling leaden.
Business noun
An excessive quantity of something, more than can be absorbed or wanted.
A surfeit of new office space pushed rents down across the district.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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