ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Too-muchness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Too-muchness is a noun meaning Excessiveness.

Meaning

Excessiveness.

Example Sentences

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.
[…] 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 school report that said, 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.'

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overmuchness, overabundance, excessiveness, overdoing, overcontentment, overplenitude.

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