Antonyms for commonplaceness

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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