hackneydomn.
/ˈhaknɪdəm/, U.S. /ˈhæknidəm/ Now rare.
Triteness; banality; lack of originality.
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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
1867 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Commerc. 9 Jan. ‘Ilium fuit’, and soon ‘Boston was’ will go into hackneydom.
1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 6 Nov. 488/2 The latest attempt to escape from hackneydom and cockneydom is the Chinatown play.
1921 Classical Rev. 35 169/2 The latter metre [sc. heroic couplets]..seldom succeeds in living down the wearisome hackneydom of its overemployment in the eighteenth century.
1959 Times 30 Nov. 14/3 Again this was a performance that shook the dust of hackneydom from the symphony.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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