MUCHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does muchness mean? 

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

1. greatness of quantity or measure or extent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUCHNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greatness of quantity or measure or extent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

Derivation:

much ((quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent)