teemingness

For the Indian subcontinent there is a more commensurate bigness and teemingness, a registration of the pandemonium and sleaze of contemporary life.

Reticent and still "definitely overwhelmed" by her surroundings - the hubbub of the theater, the vastness of the university, the teemingness of the streets near Washington Square, her new neighborhood - Miss Maher said she missed "the familiarness of a small town."