Mickleness

Origin

From Middle English mikelnes, from Old English micelnes ("greatness, size, mass, quantity, multitude, abundance, magnificence, great deed"), equivalent to mickle + -ness. Cognate with Old High German michilnessi ("greatness, magnitude"). See also muchness.

Full definition of mickleness

Noun

1. Greatness; bigness (in any sense); largeness; size.
• 1905, Stopford Augustus Brooke, The history of early English literature:"There is in Britain a fen of unmeasured mickleness that begins from the river Granta, not far from the city which is called Grantaceaster.
• 1995, Walter Hilton, The Goad of Love:... and for to show also the wonderful mickleness of hatred that thou hadst to my sin which I had made.