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supervacaneously

adv · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adv

Meaning 1

In a way that is supervacaneous; needlessly; redundantly; superfluously.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1879, William T, Harris, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Volume XIII, To Kant, the multiple connected with the house is quite as objective as the multiple connected with the ship ; but that he attributes to the category of quantity, and not, laboriously and supervacaneously, like Schopenhauer, to the various causal relations of the eye in movement.

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History

Etymology

From supervacaneous + -ly.