What's the difference between overmuchness and superabundance?
Overmuchness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the mid-20th century, the customary political apathy of youth did not matter overmuch.
(2) Perhaps some readers don't weep overmuch when newspapers have to pay up, but the price of defeat in this sort of baroque legal game is constant for both sides.
(3) Therefore his work is somehow tainted, so not worth overmuch reaction, sitting somewhere beyond the pale.
(4) Even if his notices were sometimes prosaic, dwelt overmuch on retailing plots and showed more interest in a production's literary, rather than acting, values, Shulman wrote with clarity, good sense and to the point.
(5) If, as was said, too many of us ached, longed, strove to be be be be White White White White WHITE … If (as was said) many of us boasted overmuch of the blood des blancs that for centuries had found blatant or surreptitious ways to flow, course, and trickle tepidly through our veins and arteries (cephalic, aortal, renal, femoral, jugular, subclavian, and superior mesenteric)… If we placed too high a value on the looks, manners, and morals called the birthright of the Anglo-Saxon… White people wanted to be white just as much as we did.
(6) And the web-based march of British journalism across the world can leave home bases scantily covered, as though those who live there don't matter overmuch.
Superabundance
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aortic arch was reconstructed by side-to-side anastomosis of the ascending aorta and the main pulmonary artery and then creation of a tube from the anastomotic orifice to the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) by using a superabundant flap of the anterior wall of the main pulmonary artery.
(2) Consider this extraordinary set of variations on a theme, a passage chosen from these superabundant pages: "I do not know whether Shakespeare the man was Protestant or Catholic, skeptic or occultist, Hermetist or nihilist (though I suspect that last possibility), but the dramatist regularly drew upon the arch-Protestant Geneva Bible throughout the last 17 years of his productivity.
(3) Histologic examination of the skin revealed a superabundant network of abnormal elastic fibers in the reticular dermis and a thickening of basement membranes.
(4) The superabundance of this protein in purified thyroid lysosomes is related to the very high specific activity of the enzyme in the thyroid as compared to other tissues.
(5) Sensory dendrites in this mutant have a superabundance of microtubules.
(6) Mutations in the unc-33 gene of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans lead to severely uncoordinated movement, abnormalities in the guidance and outgrowth of the axons of many neurons, and a superabundance of microtubules in neuronal processes.
(7) Coalition facing huge election defeat after horror weeks, latest poll shows Read more Oakeshott, who died in 1990, was suspicious of modern, rationalist political projects, but is beloved because of his espousal of a “conservative disposition” that prefers “the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss”.
(8) Overexpression of oskar causes the shared pathway to be hyperactivated, with excess nanos activity present throughout the embryo and a superabundance of posterior pole cells.
(9) This suggests that antibody to LPS-CGL was initially consumed by a superabundance of endotoxin, and that a resurgence of intrinsic anti-LPS-CGL antibody levels may be associated with a reduction of circulating endotoxin.