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Muchness   Listen
noun
Muchness  n.  Greatness; extent. (Obs. or Colloq.) "The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth."
Much of a muchness, much the same. (Colloq.) "Men's men; gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Muchness" Quotes from Famous Books



... capacity for a virtue, which, I think, seems to be moribund among us—the virtue of moral indignation. Men and their actions were not all much of a muchness to him. There was none of the indifferentism of that pseudo-philosophic moderation, which, when a scoundrel or a scoundrelly action is on the tapis, hints that there is much to be said on both sides. Dickens hated a mean action or a mean sentiment as one hates something that ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope



Words linked to "Muchness" :   magnitude, archaicism



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