Meaning of too-muchness | Babel Free

Definitions

Excessiveness.

uncountable

Examples

“[…] for I was becoming obsessed, going overboard with toning, with the possibility of pressing all the metals I knew into use⟳ in the darkroom, and forgetting what photography was really for. This sort⟳ of too-muchness had no doubt⟳ been noticed at school, for it was around this time that I received a school report⟳ that said, 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.'”

“Yet I would have⟳ hated to lose⟳ “Search⟳.” And Hearne’s earnest too-muchness, his eagerness to stuff as much as possible into each piece, has become⟳ such a central feature of his artistry that it’s hard to think⟳ of it as a weakness. It’s who he is.”

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