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(archaic) greatness of quantity or measure or extent
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muchness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 large size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small). 2 greatness in quantity, number, amount, or degree.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. greatness of quantity or measure or extent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muchness \Much"ness\, n. Greatness; extent. [Obs. or Colloq.] The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth. --W. Whately. Much of a muchness , much the same. [Colloq.] ``Men's men; gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.'' ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from much + -ness . Earlier was Middle English muchelnesse (c.1200).
Usage examples of muchness.
She veered away to the left at approximately thirty degrees to the muchness and trotted forward through the polychromatic hummocks and hillocks, keeping an eye open.
Even to me, for whom this is the very hearth of Hell—here, where the armies spawn who sack my kindred's habitation, and 'spoil us of our lives—even to me this is a mighty hall of wonder, and my every eye most avidly imbibes the Muchness and the Suchness of it all!