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everydayness

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eve·ry·day  (vr-d)
adj.
1. Appropriate for ordinary days or routine occasions: a suit for everyday wear.
2. Commonplace; ordinary: everyday worries.
n.
The ordinary or routine day or occasion: "It was not an isolated, violent episode. It had become part of the everyday" (Sherry Turkle).
every·dayness n.
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Noun1.everydayness - ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
commonplaceness, commonness
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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However, if we do that at the expense of naming the others who may also be responsible, we risk not seeing the 'banality' of evil, the everydayness of evil; we risk not seeing those in a position of responsibility who fail to be attentive to the suffering of others and who fail to take responsibility for their own actions and inactions.
Raising Cain: the problem of evil and the question of responsibility by Katz, Claire Elise / Cross Currents
Concerned with everydayness and drawn to downbeat iconography, Miller looks at things that go unnoticed, exploring the notion of what a picture is expected to be.
John Miller by Nickas, Bob / Artforum International
Ezequiel Martinez Estrada wrote of the milonga revival in his Radiografia de la Pampa (Buenos Aires, 1933) that tango's "best quality, like marriages, is in its everydayness, in its calm ordinariness.
TANGO REVIVAL by MOSS, CHRIS / Dance Magazine
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