overwhelmingness
nounEtymology From overwhelming + -ness.
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The property of being overwhelming.
- The overwhelmingness of the situation caused clinical depression. There was no way to cope with either of them.
- But some of the sense of overwhelmingness that comes with modern parenting seems like it could be mitigated, not just through a once-a-year benefit or tax credit, but also through small consistent signals of support: the family discount on groceries, the convenient in-home child care option, the open play space, the flexible work space.2024 May 4, Ross Douthat, “The Birth Dearth and the Smartphone Age”, in The New York Times: