prosaicismn.
/prə(ʊ)ˈzeɪᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /prəˈzeɪəˌsɪz(ə)m/, /proʊˈzeɪəˌsɪz(ə)m/ Prosaic character or style; prosaicness; an instance of this.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > prosaic character or quality
prosaicalness1762
prosaism1787
prosaicism1804
prosiness1870
1804 A. Seward Mem. Dr. Darwin 266 Those long trains of comparative prosaicism, over which we yawn.
a1849 E. A. Poe Marginalia in Wks. (1864) III. 500 It is the prosaicism of these two writers to which is owing their especial quotability.
1884 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 401 People are never weary of inveighing against the prosaicism of our time.
1909 Daily Chron. 30 Aug. 3/3 A formality which some critics have not hesitated to brand as prosaicism.
1964 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 8 214 The activation of faded metaphors, and of prosaicisms in the structure of a poem.
2005 Philadelphia Daily News (Nexis) 9 Aug. 3 Gourmet chefs who specialize in Italian are starting to introduce the dish to their menus, hoping to ease the spaghetti-and-meatball monotony and pizza prosaicism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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