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Grammar : Noun
Spell : kom-uhn-pleys
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɒm ənˌpleɪs



Definition of commonplaceness

Origin :
  • 1540s, "a statement generally accepted," literal translation of Latin locus communis, from Greek koinos topos "general topic." See common (adj.) + place (n.). The adjectival sense of "having nothing original" dates from c.1600.
  • As in dullness : noun quality of being boring
  • As in mediocrity : noun ordinariness
  • As in normality : noun mediocrity
  • As in innocuousness : noun insipidity
  • As in insipidity : noun dullness
  • As in insipidness : noun insipidity
  • As in jejuneness : noun dullness
  • As in lifelessness : noun dullness
  • As in normalcy : noun usualness
  • As in ordinariness : noun usualness
  • As in routineness : noun usualness
  • As in sterileness : noun dullness
  • As in stodginess : noun dullness
  • As in usualness : noun normality
  • As in vapidity : noun dullness
  • As in vapidness : noun dullness
Example sentences :
  • Well, let me assure you of one thing-there's commonplaceness everywhere.
  • Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
  • I gazed at commonplaceness and dulness—I mocked at it; and now it has conquered me!
  • Extract from : « The Journal of Arthur Stirling » by Upton Sinclair
  • Commonplaceness either in the idea or its expression is alike fatal.
  • Extract from : « Rhymes and Meters » by Horatio Winslow
  • Let not the commonplaceness of the words rob us of their meaning.
  • Extract from : « Theology and the Social Consciousness » by Henry Churchill King
  • I know only one thing that can preserve it from commonplaceness and dullness and dreariness.
  • Extract from : « Brooke's Daughter » by Adeline Sergeant
  • I was not disposed to beat about the bush, and the commonplaceness of their talk irritated me.
  • Extract from : « Neighbours » by Robert Stead
  • It was as a part of all this commonplaceness that she regarded the treatise on village-improvement.
  • Extract from : « Main Street » by Sinclair Lewis
  • My chief recollection of our journey to Berlin was its commonplaceness.
  • Extract from : « Greenmantle » by John Buchan
  • When he is told that it is his manner of life that needs overhauling, the commonplaceness of the observation affronts him.
  • Extract from : « Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them » by Charles David Musgrove
  • "That is often so," I hurried to assure her, with the idea of establishing the commonplaceness of such an experience.
  • Extract from : « The Chauffeur and the Chaperon » by C. N. Williamson

Synonyms for commonplaceness

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