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Definition of Averageness

1. Noun. The state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity.

2. Noun. Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding.

Definition of Averageness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being average. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Averageness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Averageness

average average Joe average Joes average bear average bears average cost average flow rate average megawatt average out average pulse magnitude

average up averageable averaged averagely averageness (current term) averagenesses averages averaging avercorn avered

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Literary usage of Averageness

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

1. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"averageness is a quality we must put up with. And, after all, why is a poor, tawdry piece of writing so much worse than cheap chromos or crude, ..."

2. The Larger Aspects of Socialism by William English Walling (1913)
"... namely, his 'averageness'—that our thought itself is continuously as it were outvoted by the character of consciousness—by the imperious 'genius of the ..."

3. Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli (2006)
"The use of mastery criteria to identify relative "averageness" makes no sense in the standards-based classroom. For more on this, see the discussion of ..."

4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"Turn what side we may, there is something of the same sort perceptible everywhere : a kind of respectable averageness ..."

5. Education and Citizenship: And Other Papers by Edward Kidder Graham (1919)
"We believe in the average man ; but we believe too much in his averageness, too little in his manhood. There is another closely associated doubt as to the ..."

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