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COMMONPLACENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
Synonyms:
commonness; commonplaceness; everydayness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("commonplaceness" is a kind of...):
mundaneness; mundanity; ordinariness (the quality of being commonplace and ordinary)
Attribute:
common (having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual)
uncommon (not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commonplaceness"):
prosaicness; prosiness (commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting)
usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)
Derivation:
commonplace (completely ordinary and unremarkable)
