OVERMUCHNESS

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 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

Meaning:

A quantity that is more than what is appropriate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

overabundance; overmuch; overmuchness; superabundance

Context example:

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)

Derivation:

overmuch (very great in quantity; overabundant)