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
- 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
- aridity
- asepticism
- averageness
- blandness
- boredom
- colorlessness
- commonality
- commonness
- commonplaceness
- customariness
- drabness
- dreariness
- dryness
- dullness
- familiarity
- flatness
- flavorlessness
- gentility
- habitualness
- innocuousness
- insipidity
- insipidness
- jejuneness
- lifelessness
- mildness
- monotomy
- normalcy
- normality
- ordinariness
- prevalence
- regularity
- routine
- routineness
- sameness
- slowness
- staleness
- standardness
- sterileness
- sterility
- stodginess
- tediousness
- tedium
- uniformity
- uninterestingness
- unremarkableness
- vapidity
- vapidness
- washiness
- wateriness
- weariness
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