excessiveness

excessiveness
    n 1: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or
         permitted limits [syn: {excess}, {excessiveness},
         {inordinateness}]
    

Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
   excessif.]
   Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
   [1913 Webster]

         Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak.

   Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous;
        immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See
        {Enormous} --{Ex*cess*ive*ly}, adv. -{Ex*cess"ive*ness},
        n.
        [1913 Webster]
    

74 Moby Thesaurus words for "excessiveness":
      abandon, bigotry, boundlessness, crapulence, crapulency,
      crapulousness, drunkenness, egregiousness, enormousness,
      exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extortionateness,
      extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremeness, extremes,
      extremism, extremity, fabulousness, fanaticalness, fanaticism,
      giantism, gigantism, gluttony, hyperbole, hypertrophy, immoderacy,
      immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline,
      indulgence, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance,
      intemperateness, monstrousness, nimiety, outrageousness,
      overdevelopment, overdoing, overenthusiasm, overgreatness,
      overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness,
      overreaction, overreligiousness, overzealousness, perfervidness,
      preposterousness, prodigality, rabidness, radicalism,
      self-indulgence, swinishness, too much, too-muchness,
      ultrazealousness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontrol,
      undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, unrestraint,
      zealotism, zealotry