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OVERMUCHNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does overmuchness mean?

• OVERMUCHNESS (noun)
The noun OVERMUCHNESS has 1 sense:

1. a quantity that is more than what is appropriate

Familiarity information: OVERMUCHNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OVERMUCHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A quantity that is more than what is appropriate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

overmuch; overmuchness; superabundance; overabundance

Context examples:

four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy / we received an inundation of email

Hypernyms ("overmuchness" is a kind of...):

abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "overmuchness"):

excess; nimiety; surplus; surplusage (a quantity much larger than is needed)

glut; oversupply; surfeit (the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall)

bellyful (an undesirable overabundance)

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