Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

the world is too much with someone

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.22 in modern English

Syllables: the -world is -too -much with- -some-one
IPA

50

Scrabble Score

28

Letters

7

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Someone is excessively materialistic and distanced from nature.

Example Sentences

"Aided by Alistair Fuchs-Forbes, a British lecturer and healer whom More derides mercilessly as a fag reciting "I Ching in a BBC accent" (64), Doris begins to see that the world is too much with her, that the physical is the lowest denominator of human experience. She points out to More than his abandonment of the spiritual dimension has made their marriage a burned-out star, one collapsed into itself, unable to give light, just "heavy heavy heavy" (64)."
"The resident of London was in the center of the world; yet whenever he felt that the world was too much with him, he had only to step back out of the street to find himself inside his own house, his castle "in perfect safety from intrusion.""
"From Monday to Saturday, the world was too much with him, and he was still too much in the world."

Etymology

In reference to The World Is Too Much with Us, a sonnet by William Wordsworth, written circa 1802.

Questions

What does the world is too much with someone mean?: Someone is excessively materialistic and distanced from nature.
Where does the world is too much with someone come from?: In reference to The World Is Too Much with Us, a sonnet by William Wordsworth, written circa 1802.

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