superfluousness

superfluous | American Dictionary

superfluous
adjective
us/sʊˈpɜr·flu·əs/
more than is needed; extra and not necessary:
Our new mayor plans to eliminate superfluous programs.
Much of the school day is wasted on superfluous activities.

Examples of superfluous

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A chapter on hybrid peas seems superfluous when, as the author admits, hybrid varieties are extremely unlikely!
Superfluous vowels were ignored in this scoring system.
The use of colorful language and superfluous details is further illustrated by the journalist's excessive description of the protagonist's appearance.
However, redundant and superfluous cases can be avoided by requiring that no case be added to the set arbitrarily.
However, since these compilations represent excerpts from accounts which are unevenly conserved, any attempt at counting words or other exercises in quantification are superfluous.
Gradient alignment at the morphology- prosody interface is not only superfluous, but wrong.
Evolutionary theory would seem to be superfluous for understanding body (and therefore brain) functions.
In addition, we argue that the evolutionary framework is superfluous.
Companies stifled adventuring traders, suppressed free trade, precluded training mariners, brought superfluous commodities into the realm, and caused inflation.
Thus, the notion of exclusiveness is either illegitimate (if we are not allowed to talk of implausibility) or superfluous (if we are).
Also, even with lazy evaluation, this program performs a superfluous traversal through the intermediate result.
At best, theistic arguments are superfluous to the psychological and epistemic dimensions of religious belief.
To prevent the default behavior, the superfluous forms are removed.
Besides, he notes, cloning experiments have already caused failure of body systems, growth of superfluous organs, cancerous lesions, and immunity deficiency in nonhuman embryos.
The central argument is often complicated by superfluous information such that the purpose and direction of the study periodically become unclear.
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