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Muchness vs Suchness - What's the difference?

muchness | suchness |

As nouns the difference between muchness and suchness

is that muchness is large size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small) while suchness is existence per se.

muchness

English

Noun

(muchnesses)
  • Large size or bulk; bigness; size; magnitude (large or small).
  • Greatness in quantity, number, amount, or degree.

    • Quotations

    Three examples from The Diary of Samuel Pepys , all using the phrase the muchness of the business : *1666': the ' muchness of his business cannot suffer him to mind it, or give him leisure to reflect on anything — Entry 15 Aug 1666 *1667/68': This troubled me so much as, together with the shortness of the time and ' muchness of the business, did let me be at it till but about ten at night — Entry 4 March 1667/68 *1668/69': my head a little troubled with the ' muchness of the business I have upon me at present — Entry 27 March 1668/69

    suchness

    English

    (wikipedia suchness)

    Noun

    (head)
  • Existence per se.
  • * Ca. 1928 , Hans Driesch, "Philosophy of Nature", in, 1928, Edward Leroy Schaub, ed., Philosophy Today: Essays on Recent Developments in the Field of Philosophy , page 431,
    • The same relation may prevail between the suchness of willing in men and the realization of that willing.
  • * 1955 , , 1991 LB Books edition, page 22,
    • Without any apparent regard for the suchness of her environment, she sat down.
  • * 1988 , Thich Nhat Hanh, The Sun My Heart: From Mindfulness to Insight Contemplation , Parallax Press, ISBN 0938077635, page 94,
    • Rather than give an answer, you have to section the tangerine and invite the questioner to have a taste. Doing this, you allow him or her to enter the suchness of the tangerine without any verbal or conceptual description.