SAMENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sameness mean? 

• SAMENESS (noun)
  The noun SAMENESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being alike

2. the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

  Familiarity information: SAMENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAMENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being alike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

sameness of purpose kept them together

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

same (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree)

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

identicalness; identity; indistinguishability (exact sameness)

similarity (the quality of being similar)

equality (the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status)

Antonym:

difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)

Derivation:

same (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

humdrum; monotony; sameness

Context example:

he hated the sameness of the food the college served

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

unvariedness (characterized by an absence of variation)

Derivation:

same (unchanged in character or nature)

 Context examples 

She had even learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But certainly there is much more sameness in a country life than in a Bath life.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Some members of their society sent away, and the spirits of many others saddened—it was all sameness and gloom compared with the past—a sombre family party rarely enlivened.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That homogeneity, or sameness, indicates the crystallizing magma was well-mixed.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)

Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness of her scene of life; such the feelings to give interest to a long, uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He often expressed his uneasiness on this head, feared the sameness of every day's society and employments would disgust her with the place, wished the Lady Frasers had been in the country, talked every now and then of having a large party to dinner, and once or twice began even to calculate the number of young dancing people in the neighbourhood.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But I, who live in a small retired village in the country, can never find greater sameness in such a place as this than in my own home; for here are a variety of amusements, a variety of things to be seen and done all day long, which I can know nothing of there.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)