exzessiver

Exzessiver is the comparative form of the German adjective exzessiv, meaning excessive or extreme. It is used to compare degrees of excess between two or more things and appears in analytical writing, journalism, and critique when a higher level of excess is being described.

German adjectives decline for gender, number, and case, so exzessiver changes its ending according to context. The masculine nominative singular form is exzessiver; feminine and neuter forms occur as exzessive and exzessives, with other inflected endings determined by determiners and grammatical case.

Originating from the adjective exzessiv, exzessiver shares its root with the Latin ex cessivus/excessus, and it is cognate with similar forms in other languages such as French excessif. The word conveys a sense of surpassing conventional bounds and is used to emphasize greater degrees of excess.

Examples: Der exzessivere Konsum von Zucker ist in der Studie beschrieben. In ihrer Kunst wählt sie oft einen exzessiveren Stil, der stärker ins Überbordende geht. In both sentences, the comparative form signals a higher level of excess than a referenced baseline.

See also: Exzess, Exzessiv.