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Recent Examples of muchness
Kerouac had already framed the problem in The Dharma Bums, where a character modeled on Gary Snyder called for a rucksack revolution to counter America’s addiction to muchness.
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Literary Hub,
29 June 2026
The entire hour is a fascinating, glorious middle finger to various forms of bodily shame, and with Tolev stomping around the stage in huge black combat boots and a pleather jumpsuit, female too-muchness gets a new standard-bearer.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
3 Dec. 2025
Love has apparently cured Joanne of her too-muchness.
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Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
The muchness of these two series (and the two feature films in between) and the lives of these women has always been the point.
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Lyz Lenz,
Rolling Stone,
16 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub,
29 June 2026
The entire hour is a fascinating, glorious middle finger to various forms of bodily shame, and with Tolev stomping around the stage in huge black combat boots and a pleather jumpsuit, female too-muchness gets a new standard-bearer.
—
Kathryn Vanarendonk,
Vulture,
3 Dec. 2025
Love has apparently cured Joanne of her too-muchness.
—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
The muchness of these two series (and the two feature films in between) and the lives of these women has always been the point.
—
Lyz Lenz,
Rolling Stone,
16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muchness
Noun
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Mackenzie had earned a reputation for piety, patriotism, lack of humor and liberality with the lash.
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All the states Lauck writes about benefited from the liberality of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Noun
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But a wiser course might be to emphasize a kind of counter-nostalgia, reclaiming a mythic past for the forces of tolerance and democratic generosity.
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Perhaps subsequent history shows that his generosity of spirit was misplaced.
Noun
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The City of Alamosa canceled its fireworks show due to historic drought conditions and an abundance of caution.
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Americans have traditionally embraced a lifestyle of abundance, believing that hard work and ambition would lead to greater prosperity.
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This excessiveness can hinder critical knowledge building because of the sheer amount of information that can be accessed simultaneously at any time.
Noun
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Here, the journey itself is the extravagance, turning slow, long-distance rail into something decidedly cinematic.
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The color palette reflects an extravagance the duo had on their side—two whole years to redo the space’s layout and interior.
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Quantum exposure cuts across data, supplier contracts, capital allocation, customer commitments, regulatory adequacy and board appetite.
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More than half of the regions NERC studied could face resource-adequacy problems in that window, a worsening outlook that the group partly attributes to data centers.
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“Muchness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muchness. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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