All 4 Uses of
superfluous
in
Notes from the Underground
- That is not all; then, you say, science itself will teach man (though to my mind it's a superfluous luxury) that he never has really had any caprice or will of his own, and that he himself is something of the nature of a piano-key or the stop of an organ, and that there are, besides, things called the laws of nature; so that everything he does is not done by his willing it, but is done of itself, by the laws of nature.†
Chpt 1.7
- And what loving-kindness, oh Lord, what loving-kindness I felt at times in those dreams of mine! in those "flights into the sublime and the beautiful"; though it was fantastic love, though it was never applied to anything human in reality, yet there was so much of this love that one did not feel afterwards even the impulse to apply it in reality; that would have been superfluous.†
Chpt 2.2
- I recalled, too, that during those two hours I had not said a single word to this creature, and had, in fact, considered it utterly superfluous; in fact, the silence had for some reason gratified me.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- With tact and good-breeding, and, above all, entirely without superfluous words, I blamed myself for all that had happened.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(superfluous) more than is needed, desired, or required