Lexic.us

Definition of Sameness

1. Noun. The quality of being alike. "Sameness of purpose kept them together"

2. Noun. The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety. "He hated the sameness of the food the college served"

Definition of Sameness

1. n. The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.

Definition of Sameness

1. Noun. the quality of being the same; identity ¹

2. Noun. the state of being equivalent; equality ¹

3. Noun. a tiring lack of variety; monotony ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sameness

1. lack of change or variety [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sameness

same old same old same old story same to you samech samechs sameish sameishness samek samekh samekhs

sameks samel sameliness samely samen sameness (current term) samenesses sames samey sameyness

samfie samfies samfoo samfoos samfowlerite samfu samfus samian samiel samiels

Literary usage of Sameness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"THE SENSE OF sameness. IN Chapter VIII, p. 221, the distinction was drawn between two kinds of knowledge of things, bare acquaintance with them and ..."

2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"THE SENSE OP sameness. IN Chapter VIII, p. 221, the distinction was drawn between two kinds of knowledge of things, bare acquaintance with them and ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"sameness, accordingly, depends upon a special purpose. If in a chemical combination a metal is wanted, it may be all the same whether we use iron. zinc. ..."

4. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"The form " it is the same as this " involves sameness. an actually "lifted" ... The sameness of the memory image is carried over to the recurring object. ..."

5. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"Thus, in the deja vue situation, the feeling of familiarity (or sameness), which is a specific feeling and like no other sense quality, ie, is not sight or ..."

6. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"sameness is the mother of disgust; variety the cure. Petrarch. Satiety. 1. Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird. Ger. 2. ..."

7. On the Theory of Logic: An Essay by Carveth Read (1878)
"Of Identity and sameness. WE must try to distinguish between Identity, ... Identity (generally) and sameness both differ from Similarity in this, ..."

8. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"THE SENSE OF sameness. IN Chapter VIII, p. 221, the distinction was drawn between two kinds of knowledge of things, bare acquaintance with them and ..."

9. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"THE SENSE OP sameness. IN Chapter VIII, p. 221, the distinction was drawn between two kinds of knowledge of things, bare acquaintance with them and ..."

10. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"sameness, accordingly, depends upon a special purpose. If in a chemical combination a metal is wanted, it may be all the same whether we use iron. zinc. ..."

11. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"The form " it is the same as this " involves sameness. an actually "lifted" ... The sameness of the memory image is carried over to the recurring object. ..."

12. Man's Unconscious Spirit; the Psychoanalysis of Spiritism by Wilfrid Lay (1921)
"Thus, in the deja vue situation, the feeling of familiarity (or sameness), which is a specific feeling and like no other sense quality, ie, is not sight or ..."

13. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"sameness is the mother of disgust; variety the cure. Petrarch. Satiety. 1. Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird. Ger. 2. ..."

14. On the Theory of Logic: An Essay by Carveth Read (1878)
"Of Identity and sameness. WE must try to distinguish between Identity, ... Identity (generally) and sameness both differ from Similarity in this, ..."

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