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commonplaceness

Word definitions for commonplaceness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace [syn: commonness , everydayness ] [ant: uncommonness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commonplaceness \Com"mon*place`ness\, n. The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being commonplace.

Usage examples of commonplaceness.

Furnishing hotel interiors was vulgar hackwork unbefitting a real artist, but a real artist had to make a living, and the commonplaceness of such commissions could always be slightly offset by such flourishes of unorthodoxy as having it written into every contract that one suite of rooms should be fitted with green carnations instead of the more fashionable roses and amaranths and should always be available for his exclusive use.

And he was hoping to find reserves of power in her, such as would rescue her from the imputation of commonplaceness in her beliefs.

How can you expect a mere author to comprehend the faulty method of Shakespeare, or the ethical commonplaceness of Dickens and Thackeray, or the vital Ibsenism of Bernard Shaw and the other near-Ibsens, without assistance?