COMMONPLACENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commonplaceness mean? 

• COMMONPLACENESS (noun)
  The noun COMMONPLACENESS has 1 sense:

1. ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace

  Familiarity information: COMMONPLACENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMONPLACENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

commonness; commonplaceness; everydayness

Hypernyms ("commonplaceness" is a kind of...):

mundaneness; mundanity; ordinariness (the quality of being commonplace and ordinary)

Attribute:

common (having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual)

uncommon (not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commonplaceness"):

prosaicness; prosiness (commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting)

usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)

Derivation:

commonplace (completely ordinary and unremarkable)