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Definition of Everydayness
1. 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
Definition of Everydayness
1. Noun. The quality or state of happening every day, or frequently. ¹
2. Noun. The product or result of happening every day, or frequently. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Everydayness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Everydayness
Literary usage of Everydayness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... thrill of watching a wild bird on its nest or of meeting face to face some
free creature of the forest. But the wonder of the book is its everydayness. ..."
2. The Bookman (1903)
"Howells would have made George so convincingly natural that you would have loved
him for his everydayness. But I think that Howells's sense of probability ..."
3. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"... much too heady for the Victorian public, nurtured on the spiritual everydayness
of George Eliot, and the cathedral town proprieties of Anthony Trollope. ..."
4. Military Ethics: Reflections on Principles: Profession of Arms, Mil. Leader edited by Malham M. Wakin (1987)
"The American POWs should belong now to some strange and evil Asian cult where
torture merged into everydayness, ..."
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