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    OVERMUCHNESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A quantity that is more than what is appropriateplay

    Example:

    we received an inundation of email

    Synonyms:

    overabundance; overmuch; overmuchness; superabundance

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    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)

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