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too-muchness

too-muchness noun: excessiveness.

Noun

too-muchness (uncountable)

  1. Excessiveness.
    • […] for I was becoming obsessed, going overboard with toning, with the possibility of pressing all the metals I knew into use in the darkroom, and forgetting what photography was really for. This sort of too-muchness had no doubt been noticed at school, for it was around this time that I received a...2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
    • Yet I would have hated to lose “Search.” And Hearne’s earnest too-muchness, his eagerness to stuff as much as possible into each piece, has become such a central feature of his artistry that it’s hard to think of it as a weakness. It’s who he is.2023 July 10, Zachary Woolfe, “Review: Ted Hearne’s Sweet, Sad American Elegy”, in The New York Times

Origin of too-muchness

From too much + -ness.

Questions about too-muchness

What does too-muchness mean?
Too-muchness means excessiveness.
What part of speech is too-muchness?
Too-muchness is a noun.

Words near too-muchness in the dictionary

  1. too right
  2. too soon
  3. too too
  4. too-hard basket
  5. too-hard baskets
  6. too-muchness
  7. Tooan
  8. tooart
  9. tooarts
  10. Tooba
  11. Tooban

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