as in mundanity
the quality or state of being ordinary
He was a cheerful person who took pleasure even in the ordinariness of everyday life.
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Recent Examples of ordinariness
Balle’s prose—repetitive, hypnotic, and as balanced as a small plane—sustains an atmosphere of illuminated ordinariness.
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Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Theresa is easy not to notice in everyday life, and Keaton tapped into that ordinariness, along with the wanderlust that gripped so many discontented antiheroes of the 1970s.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
There is something about that ordinariness that is extraordinary.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Theresa is easy not to notice in everyday life, and Keaton tapped into that ordinariness, along with the wanderlust that gripped so many discontented antiheroes of the 1970s.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
There is something about that ordinariness that is extraordinary.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ordinariness
mundanity
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Most major celebrities or pop artists will tell you their lives are spent in a glass cage, and yearn for mundanity as much as some pine for fame.—
Jaeden Pinder,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2025
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None of the ensemble really bursts out, grounded down by the mundanity of the approach, which has to be by design.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Ordinariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ordinariness. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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