Overblownness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being overblown. uncountable

    "He was hooked immediately by the overheated imagery, the overblownness of it all. No writer he read had ever communicated that feeling of an incomprehensible madness."

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"He was hooked immediately by the overheated imagery, the overblownness of it all. No writer he read had ever communicated that feeling of an incomprehensible madness."

Etymology

From overblown + -ness.

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