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Muchness

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.''
--G. Eliot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
muchness

late 14c., from much + -ness. Earlier was Middle English muchelnesse (c.1200).

Wiktionary
muchness

n. 1 large size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small). 2 greatness in quantity, number, amount, or degree.

WordNet
muchness

n. greatness of quantity or measure or extent

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!