(n.) The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

Saturnalia aggrandizement amplification ballyhoo big talk blowing up burlesque caricature crapulence crapulency crapulousness de trop debauchery dilatation dilation disentitlement dispensable dissipation dissoluteness drunkenness empty claim empty title enhancement enlargement exaggerating exaggeration excessive excessiveness exorbitance exorbitancy expansion expendable expletive extortionateness extra extravagance extreme false claim fat glut gluttony grandiloquence gratuitous heightening huckstering hyperbole hyperbolism immoderacy immoderateness immoderation impropriety in excess inappropriateness incontinence indiscipline indulgence inflation inordinacy inordinateness intemperance intemperateness inundation invalid claim lack of claim leftover leftovers magnification needless nimiety no claim nonessential outrageousness overabundance overage overbalance overdoing overemphasis overestimation overflow overflowing overgrowth overindulgence overkill overmeasure overmuch overpass overplus overproduction overrun overrunning overspill overspreading overstatement overstock oversupply pleonastic plethora plus preposterousness prodigality profuseness profusion prolix puffery puffing up redundancy redundant remaining residual self-indulgence self-restraint sensationalism spare stretching superabundance supererogation supererogatory superfluity superfluous superiority superlative supernumerary surfeit surplus surplusage swinishness tall talk tautologic tautologous to spare too much too-muchness touting travesty uncalled-for unconscionableness unconstraint uncontrol undeservedness undeservingness undueness unentitledness unessential unmeritedness unnecessary unneeded unreasonableness unrestraint verbose