Mother Angelica

Love has been defined, analyzed, explained and excused. It has been the cause of wars, feuds, heroism, martyrdom, inordinate passion, and beautiful friendships. It pulls two people of opposite temperaments together into a married state and permits them to live happily. It makes friends understand each other without the necessity of words.

American Educator

Yotam Ottolenghi

Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

Israeli Chef

George Washington Carver

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

American Scientist

Charles Horton Cooley

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

American Sociologist

Thomas Merton

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

American Author

A. N. Wilson

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

English Writer

Carter Burwell

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

American Composer

Ann Beattie

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.

American Writer

Philip Roth

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

American Novelist

Andrew Carnegie

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Scottish Businessman

Use 'inordinate' to express that something is done beyond practical limits, not just more than usual.

Impractical Extent

'Inordinate' often carries a negative connotation, suggesting that something is overly done to a fault.

Negative Feel

Use 'inordinate' in contexts of power dynamics to imply that control is beyond what is acceptable.

Power and Control

In academic writing, 'inordinate' can be used to critique the excessiveness of a concept or practice.

Analysis and Critique

'Inordinate' is useful for a critical tone when suggesting that something should be lessened or moderated.

Critical Tone

'Inordinate' can describe emotions or desires to indicate they are excessively strong or intense.

Descriptively Emotional

How 'inordinate' is received can depend on personal perspectives on what's considered normal or proper.

Subjectivity

'Inordinate' can change meaning across cultures, where norms for excessiveness differ.

Cultural Norms

 So when we think about child development, we all know that the first five years are a critical period for language and attachment in the brain. It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life has an inordinate impact on who you will become.

Why 30 is not the new 20...

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Inordinate

Impractical Extent

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