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sameness

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same·ness  (smns)
n.
1. The quality or condition of being the same.
2. A lack of variety or change; monotony.

sameness [ˈseɪmnɪs]
n
1. the state or quality of being the same
2. lack of change; monotony
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sameness - the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them together"
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
identicalness, indistinguishability, identity - exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"
similarity - the quality of being similar
equality - the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status
difference - the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; "there are many differences between jazz and rock"
2.samenesssameness - the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
unvariedness - characterized by an absence of variation

sameness
noun similarity, resemblance, uniformity, likeness, oneness, standardization, indistinguishability, identicalness He grew bored by the sameness of the speeches.
Translations
sameness [ˈseɪmnɪs] N (= similarity) → igualdad f, identidad f; (= monotony) → monotonía f, uniformidad f
sameness
sameness [ˈseɪmnɪs] n (monotony) → monotonia
sameness [ˈseɪmnɪs] n (monotony) → monotonia


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It is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures, this sombre sameness in middle-aged and elderly people, whose life has resulted in disappointment and discontent, to whose faces a smile becomes so strange that the sad lines all about the lips and brow seem to take no notice of it, and it hurries away again for want of a welcome.
Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse.
For sameness of incident soon produces satiety, and makes tragedies fail on the stage.
 
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