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Definition of Overmuchness
1. Noun. A quantity that is more than what is appropriate. "We received an inundation of email"
Generic synonyms: Abundance, Copiousness, Teemingness
Specialized synonyms: Excess, Nimiety, Surplus, Surplusage, Glut, Oversupply, Surfeit, Bellyful
Derivative terms: Overabundant, Overmuch, Superabundant
Definition of Overmuchness
1. n. The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance.
Definition of Overmuchness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmuchness
Literary usage of Overmuchness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"Here and there the style suffers from that overmuchness of unessential detail
and that exaggeration of particulars which Mr. Dickens brought into fashion ..."
2. The American Magazine of Civics edited by Andrew J. Palm, Henry Randall Waite (1895)
"... the attic is so full of clothes that I cannot get into it to bring you some ;
this distressing overmuchness threatens to be our ruin. ..."
3. The Human Factor in Education by James Phinney Munroe (1920)
"And half of the restlessness and nervousness of the typical American is due to
the fussiness, the flashiness, the overmuchness, the general ..."
4. A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1915)
"... which Mr. Reddie— whose omission would have been dishonest if he had seen
their meaning—no doubt took for pleonasm, superfluity, overmuchness. ..."
5. Reducing the Cost of Living by Scott Nearing (1914)
"Satiety is the feeling of overmuchness that follows surfeit. Satisfaction is the
feeling of completeness which is the result of work well done. ..."
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