commonplacenessn.
/ˈkɒmənpleɪsnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈkɑmənˌpleɪsnᵻs/ The quality or condition of being commonplace; ordinariness. Also: an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > quality of being commonplace or undistinguished
ordinarinessa1617
vulgarity1646
greyness1663
commonness1779
commonplaceness1808
commonplace1842
commonplaceism1851
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > commonplaceness
vulgarity1646
vulgeralitya1681
commonplaceness1808
everydayness1840
prosaicness1852
prosaism1855
hackneydom1867
prosaicalness1876
quotidianism1913
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > state or quality of being trite or banal
tameness1530
triteness1727
triticalness1727
tritism1785
commonplaceness1808
prosiness1814
triticism1824
triticality1835
commonplace1842
commonplaceism1851
prosaicness1852
prosaism1855
hackneydom1867
prosaicalness1876
banality1878
mundanity1959
squareness1961
1808 M. Wilmot 31 Aug. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) 372 There was an earnestness in the Child's manner & a commonplaceness in his way of supposing me likely to die which brought the idea more home to my mind than I ever felt it before.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant III. vi. 169 As I was before struck with the fluency of style..I was now equally so with its commonplaceness.
1926 Amer. Mercury Apr. 468/1 Something of the pioneer sturdiness adheres to these women, hewing their way through any and all matters, large and small, in order to escape their own commonplaceness.
2015 Business Mirror (Philippines) (Nexis) 21 June It is the ordinariness, the very commonplaceness of the messages, that makes the Church suspicious about their celestial origin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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