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prosiness|ˈprəʊzɪnɪs|
[f. prosy + -ness.]
Prosy or prosaic quality; commonplaceness; dullness and tediousness of writing or speech.
1814Sir G. Jackson Diaries & Lett. (1873) II. 448 Settling down again to the prosiness of their every-day life. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 291 Those well-regulated minds which, during a good part of the last century found out a way, through rhyme, to snatch a prosiness beyond the reach of prose. |