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Commonplaceness

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com·mon·place  (kmn-pls)
adj.
Having no remarkable features, characteristics, or traits; ordinary.
n.
1.
a. A trite or obvious remark; a platitude: "the solidified commonplaces of established wisdom" John Simon. See Synonyms at cliche.
b. Something that is ordinary or common.
2. Archaic A passage marked for reference or entered in a commonplace book.

[Translation of Latin locus commnis, generally applicable literary passage, translation of Greek koinos topos.]

common·placeness n.
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Noun1.commonplaceness - ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity - the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
prosaicness, prosiness - commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting
usualness - commonness by virtue of not being unusual

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Perhaps if they were more humorous they would not be so true to the British life and character present in them in the whole length and breadth of its expansive commonplaceness.
I think such an individual really does become a type of his own--a type of commonplaceness which will not for the world, if it can help it, be contented, but strains and yearns to be something original and independent, without the slightest possibility of being so.
"Oh, your old Uncle reads a little of everything," he returned with a reassuring commonplaceness of manner.
 
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