prosaicalnessn.
/prə(ʊ)ˈzeɪɪklnᵻs/, U.S. /prəˈzeɪᵻk(ə)lnəs/, /proʊˈzeɪᵻk(ə)lnəs/ Now rare.
Prosaic quality or character; = prosaicness n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > prosaic character or quality
prosaicalness1762
prosaism1787
prosaicism1804
prosiness1870
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
1762 Life, Trav., & Adventures Christopher Wagstaff II. xxxvii. 178 Should a gentleman..chance to let drop an oath, he will that instant rebuke the prosaicalness of it.
1844 L. Hunt Imagination & Fancy 47 As to prosaicalness in general, it is sometimes indulged in by young writers on the plea of its being natural.
1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxi. 162 The intense prosaicalness of common life is shown in the Paston letters, where the girls pray for husbands, with apparently perfect indifference as to who they may be.
1917 S. Lewis in Sat. Evening Post 28 July 35/2 Her hat fell off and her hair was a little disordered. Yet this touch of prosaicalness did not shock him.
1944 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 29 224 The use of anecdotes, illustrations, and personal testimonies enlivens the prosaicalness of mere factual details.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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