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JLPT N1Mostly writtenWith feeling

というもの・てからというものthis whole (week); ever since

After a length of time, というもの says the whole stretch has been filled with one thing, and has felt long. After てから it is "ever since": a turning point, and life has been different from then on.

A whole stretch

この/ここ + length of time + というもの

この一いっ週しゅう間かん, ここ数すう年ねん, この半はん年とし: nearly always a stretch that runs up to now.

Ever since

Verb in the て-form + からというもの(は)

The は is optional. それからというもの is "ever since then".

After it
How things have been the whole time: ずっと…ている, …ていない, …ようになった, …なくなった. Not one thing that happened once.
Tone
Said with feeling, glad or not. More literary than てから or て以い来らい.
Where you'll meet it
Novels, essays, letters, and people telling the story of their own lives. Everyday talk mostly leaves というもの out: この一いっ週しゅう間かんずっと, 生うまれてから.

A whole stretch: この一いっ週しゅう間かんというもの

Ever since: てからというもの

Close neighbours

て以来N2

Plain "ever since". It gives the starting point and adds no feeling.

てからN5

The everyday word. It also takes one thing that happened afterward, which てからというもの can't.

というものだ・というものはN2

Neither is about time. というものだ ends a sentence with a verdict: "that is what … is". After an ordinary noun, というものは is just "the thing called": 人じん生せいというものは.

Check yourself

1Which sentence sounds natural?

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2Which one fits?

(  )というもの、ずっと雨あめが降ふっている。

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