overmuchness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
overmuchness (uncountable)
- (dated) The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance.
- Synonym: excessiveness
- 1641, Ben Jonson, Timber
- There are words that do as much raise a style as others can depress it . Superlation and overmuchness amplifies
References edit
- “overmuchness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.