multitudinousnessn.
/ˌmʌltᵻˈtjuːdᵻnəsnəs/, /ˌmʌltᵻˈtʃuːdᵻnəsnəs/, U.S. /ˌməltəˈt(j)udn̩əsnəs/ The quality or state of being multitudinous; numerousness, multiplicity, immensity.
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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun]
multitudec1350
numberc1390
pluralitya1398
manynessc1500
multitudine1547
umberment1550
infiniteness1579
numbers1591
populacy1597
plurity1600
numerosity1611
populosity1614
numerousness1631
populousness1651
multitudinousness1653
multitudinosity1840
1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes Pref. sig. A2v The eminency of the first, the mediocrity of the second, and the meannesse yet multitudinousnesse of the third.
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 132 He had observed the multitudinousness of his Fathers Chaplains.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 147 Shakspeare rightly called him [sc. the sea] ‘multitudinous’. But in spite of his multitudinousness [etc.].
1876 Family Herald 7 Oct. 366/1 The multitudinousness of God's mercies.
1890 Spectator 11 Jan. Thinking grows..tired with the multitudinousness of the new subjects for thought.
1914 Mind 23 207 The variety and multitudinousness of experience.
1982 T. A. Shippey Road to Middle-Earth vi. 146 Romanticism, multitudinousness, imperfect comprehension: these are the poem's goals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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