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Definition of Commonness
1. Noun. The state of being that is commonly observed.
Generic synonyms: Normalcy, Normality
Derivative terms: Common, Common, Expected
2. Noun. The quality of lacking taste and refinement.
Generic synonyms: Inelegance
Derivative terms: Coarse, Common, Common, Gross, Raunchy, Vulgar, Vulgar
3. Noun. Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace.
Generic synonyms: Mundaneness, Mundanity, Ordinariness
Specialized synonyms: Prosaicness, Prosiness, Usualness
Attributes: Common, Uncommon
Derivative terms: Common, Common, Commonplace, Everyday, Everyday
Antonyms: Uncommonness
4. Noun. Sharing of common attributes.
Generic synonyms: Generality
Specialized synonyms: Solidarity
Attributes: Common
Derivative terms: Common, Common, Common, Common, Common, Common, Common, Common
Antonyms: Individuality
Definition of Commonness
1. n. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
Definition of Commonness
1. Noun. The quality of being common. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Commonness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonness
Literary usage of Commonness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"So far as we are able to bring out any clear lines in what is, at the best, a
vague picture, we may say that there is a commonness of emotional intent, ..."
2. Fireside Education by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1841)
"INTRODUCTION : commonness Л SOURCE OP INDIFFERENCE. All this is susceptible of
easy explanation. Familiarity breeds contempt in more ways than one. ..."
3. Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Matthew LUCKIESH (1922)
"In these cases the concealment of the light-source and the commonness of bas-relief
as compared with ab Fig. 74. — a. A disk (above) and a sphere (below) ..."
4. Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ...by William Paley, James Paxton by William Paley, James Paxton (1829)
"... by its very diffusion, its commonness, its cheapness ; by its falling to the
lot, and forming the happiness, of the great bulk and body of our species, ..."
5. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Catechised on his Death-bed in his Faith and Charity. His Death. Of a peaceable
Nature. Made Nobility less respected by the commonness thereof. ..."
6. Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency by George Barrell Cheever (1842)
"commonness of the spirit of Cain in human society. WE are now to consider the
wisdom and necessity of this ordinance. So far as facts in past ages can teach ..."
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