Excess  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

An explosion is a violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.) Metaphorically, also used to denote a sudden increase or emotional outburst

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The state of exceeding or going beyond limits, beyond what is normal or usual. Related terms include eccentricity, extravagance and transgression. Georges Bataille, in works such as The Accursed Share, was a leading theorist on excess.

Etymology

Old English exces, excess, ecstasy; Latin excessus a going out, loss of self-possession, from excedere, excessum, to go out, go beyond. See ex-cedere.

Namesakes

• Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (1985)- Georges Bataille
• Gamiani, ou Une Nuit d'Excès (1833) - Alfred de Musset

Contrast

• Moderation

See also

• immoderateness
• superfluity
• superabundance
• extravagance
• indulgence
• transgression
• gratification
• intemperance
• dissipation