TYPICALITY Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

typicality

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Definition of typicality

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Noun

Banda’s first impulse was to maintain normality, stability, for the children.

— Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Weiss has her own particular vision of American and international normality.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of normality

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

In fairness, most politicians have a bit of convenenciero in them.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Instead, the women who dared stand up for science and competitive fairness were forcibly removed, while the Thorns' official X account celebrated their amazing fans in a post after the match.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of fairness

Noun

But that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness.

— Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
Joe, who was selected because of his averageness, turns out to be the smartest person on Earth in the future and lands a job working for President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews).

— David Faris, TheWeek, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of averageness

Noun

Not since Lou Reed jammed 26 dollars in his hand has a group so believably articulated the crescendo and contours of a high, alongside the mundanity, side quests, and thousand-yard stares, too.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
Banksy’s stenciled rats, children with balloons, riot police, smiley faces and masked figures are instantly recognizable symbols of resistance to centralized power, war, consumerism, the mundanity of everyday life and the machinery of commerce.

— Chad Radford, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of mundanity

Noun

To be clear, the mundaneness, examined piecemeal, is undeniably horrific.

— Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of mundaneness

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