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    COMMONPLACENESS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplaceplay

    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)

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