different between supervacaneous vs supervacaneously

English

Etymology

From Latin supervac?neus; compare Italian supervacaneo, Portuguese supervacâneo, Spanish supervacáneo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: so?o'p?rv?k??n??s, syo?o'p?rv?k??n??s, IPA^(key): /?su?p?v??ke?n??s/, /?sju?p?v??ke?n??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?su?p??v??ke?n??s/

Adjective

supervacaneous (not comparable)

1. (now rare) Added above what is needed or necessary; superfluous, redundant.
   • 1915, George Wharton James, Our American Woodlands:

     It is an awful thing to find your efforts supervacaneous when you are so far away from home and friends, sympathy, and help.

   • 1960, Nancy Mitford, Don't Tell Alfred:

     ‘It became all the more important for me to get out because my son Foster, aged now fifteen, is only ten points below genius and this genius would have been unavailing and supervacaneous, in other words wasted, behind the iron curtain.’

   • 1972, Aiko It? and Graeme Wilson, translating Natsume S?seki, I Am a Cat (2002 combined edition, Tuttle Publishing, ?ISBN, volume one, chapter III, page 152:

     If I were simply to discuss noses in disregard of their relation to other entities, then I would declare without fear of contradiction that the nose of Mrs. Goldfield is superb, superlative, and, though possibly supervacaneous, one well-placed to win first prize at any exhibition of nasal development which might be organized by the long-nosed goblins on Mount Kurama.

Synonyms

• pleonastic, redundant, superfluous, supervacaneal (obsolete), supervacuous (obsolete)

Derived terms

• supervacaneously, supervacaneousness

Translations

References

• “supervacaneous, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

English

Etymology

supervacaneous +? -ly.

Adverb

supervacaneously (comparative more supervacaneously, superlative most supervacaneously)

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