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Overlarge vs Overlargeness - What's the difference?

overlarge | overlargeness |

As an adjective overlarge

is excessively large; too big; oversize.

As an adverb overlarge

is too extravagantly, overconfidently.

As a noun overlargeness is

the quality of being overlarge; excessive size or bulk.

overlarge

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Excessively large; too big; oversize.
    • After a couple of years without pruning, the shrub had grown overlarge and completely obscured the window.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (label) Too extravagantly, overconfidently.
  • *:
  • *:I will doo with her what me lyst said Palomydes / wete yow wel sayd that knyghte thou spekest ouer large / though thou semest me to haue at auauntage / by cause thow sawest me doo bataille but late

    • overlargeness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being overlarge; excessive size or bulk.
    • (Webster 1913)