sameness
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humdrum, monotone, monotonousness, monotony
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Old New Americana Hotels with true character stand out in the sea of business-travel sameness. — Jessica Flint, WSJ, "The Seattle Hotel Playbook," 3 Dec. 2018 The show’s designs are perfectly adequate, but its desire to make everything that’s not a human being appear either vaguely phallic or vulva-like means there’s a sameness to the designs here and there. — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "How Big Mouth season 2 turns the horrors of puberty into sweet, nuanced comedy," 5 Oct. 2018 Gemini thrives on change and can’t stand too much sameness. — Allure, "Bite Beauty's Astrology Lipstick for Leo Is an Attention-Grabbing Glittery Gold," 19 July 2018 But his fixation on identity—the rockers’ and his own—helps explain the mentality that led to such sameness in the first place. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "Was Classic Rock a Sound, or a Tribe?," 28 May 2018 But while the score starts out fairly strong, a perfect match to the musical’s tonal aesthetic, the songs eventually give way to a kind of sameness. — Aja Romano, Vox, "Pretty Woman: The Musical is high on charm, low on substance," 17 Aug. 2018 The sameness sets in right away: A terrorist known as al-Makdasi (Firas Nassar) who had been in Syria appears in the West Bank, echoing the reappearance of a terrorist thought dead at the beginning of Season 1. — Mike Hale, New York Times, "Review: ‘Fauda’ Returns on Netflix, Guns Blazing," 23 May 2018 There was that acknowledgment of difference and sameness. — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, "'Stellaluna' author and artist celebrates 25th anniversary with exhibit," 1 July 2018 This can give an impression of parity and sameness. — Fortune, "Who’s Winning the Self-Driving Car Race?," 31 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sameness.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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