1
as in prevalence
the fact or state of happening often
tardiness of as much commonness as the rising of the sun
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2
as in lowness
the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste
the socialites were appalled by the newcomer's commonness
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Recent Examples of commonness
At the same time, Tacitus points readers to the prevalence and thus the normalization and commonness of this rhetoric, which can become an inseparable corollary of a program of making war.
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Timothy Joseph, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
—Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
Timothy Joseph, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
—Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commonness
Noun
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The study, which surveyed 2,090 families with children aged 12 to 17, found that higher-quality meals were associated with a 22 to 34% lower prevalence of substance use among youths with low to moderate stress exposure.—
Jillian Pretzel,
Parents,
11 Apr. 2026
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Health officials are still developing tools and techniques to track the prevalence of newer orphines and other synthetic drugs.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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That feeling stops, however, when pulling into gas stations or parking lots, where the length and lowness of the car require extreme care to keep the chin from scraping.—
Byron Hurd,
The Drive,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The frequency of those cores, the available cache, and TDP will all factor into how useful this CPU is as a major part of an affordable desktop gaming PC.—
Jon Martindale,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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Some are required, and others are based on the level and frequency of pain experienced.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But if there truly is an epidemic of canine defecation in your area, then the solution is not to turn up the rudeness volume, but to appeal to a system or organization that addresses public health or the care of public spaces.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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But only those who had been woken up without warning with a degree of rudeness would remember this night when their own time came.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There are no great surprises from here on out, though the sheer, lusty grossness of the fallout is occasionally startling.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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If an exclamation point only signified gore and grossness, this gothic rock opera would more than qualify.—
Rachel Simon,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Tiny imperfections, including surface roughness, slight misalignments, and stray electrical charges, can destabilize the trap.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Apr. 2026
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The unique roughness of the PR cobbles is his biggest obstacle.—
Jessica Hopkins,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
15 Feb. 2026
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His vulgarity, insults and threats do not make America great.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The values are different now, the lifestyles, the accepted vulgarity, the manners, the view of what’s patriotic and what’s not, the concept of service.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Commonness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commonness. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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