mundaneness

noun

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as in mundanity

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Recent Examples of mundaneness Charles Wylie, the museum’s curator of photography, says the exhibit highlights the centrality of the Black experience in American history, from the tragedies to the mundaneness of family life. — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mundaneness
  1. mundanity
  2. everydayness
  3. normality
  4. ordinariness
  5. commonness
  6. fairness
  7. routine
Noun
  • The most pivotal scenes take place in parking lots, backyards, drab police-station hallways — spaces characterized by their mundanity.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026
  • All of these shows hinge on a collision of mundanity and chaos that creates the conditions for comedy.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of mundanity
Noun
  • The everydayness of these items may also hold clues to their draw.
    — Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Epic narratives worthy of a novel, as well as anecdotes of the quiet everydayness of everyday things, both grounding and inspiring.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
Definition of everydayness
Noun
  • The crimson hue that may have been visible at the height of the eclipse will gradually fade as the crescent of the lunar disk exposed to direct sunlight grows, and normality reasserts itself over the natural satellite.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • By the time the world returned to relative normality, her priorities had shifted.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of normality
Noun
  • People from West Asia are so often shown through images of violence, Korkejian says, that their joy, style and ordinariness can disappear from view.
    — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • Is there a positive case for being ordinary—a reason to actively pursue ordinariness, regardless of whether being great is overrated?
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
Definition of ordinariness
Noun
  • This specific subtype could help to explain the traditional night owl chronotype’s commonness in men.
    — Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Timothy Joseph, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026
Definition of commonness
Noun
  • But despite tropes that paint our era as one of apathy and distraction, our reporting shows agency – individuals and communities putting aside differences to demand both fairness and the ability to define what matters.
    — Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Courts rely on consistent legal standards to ensure fairness, and businesses rely on those same principles to make investments, hire employees, and plan for the future.
    — Robin Rossenfeld, Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of fairness
Noun
  • Teams cross multiple time zones, adjust practice and sleep schedules and play at a neutral site far from their normal routines.
    — Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • As if dating weren’t already enough of a gamble, a new trend has some men skipping their usual hygiene routines before meeting a prospective partner.
    — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of routine

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“Mundaneness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mundaneness. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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