Commonness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Commonness \Com"mon*ness\, n.
     1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the
        commonness of sunlight.
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     2. Triteness; meanness.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  commonness
       n 1: the state of being that is commonly observed [syn: {expectedness}]
       2: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: {coarseness},
           {grossness}, {vulgarity}, {vulgarism}, {raunch}]
       3: ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and
          commonplace [syn: {commonplaceness}, {everydayness}] [ant:
           {uncommonness}]
       4: sharing of common attributes [syn: {commonality}] [ant: {individuality}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "commonness":
     Attic simplicity, accustomedness, averageness, banality, banalness,
     baseness, chasteness, classical purity, cliche, coarseness,
     common occurrence, commonality, commonplaceness, confirmedness,
     conventionality, corniness, currency, customariness, dullness,
     extensiveness, familiarness, fixedness, flatness, fourth-rateness,
     frequence, frequency, fustiness, garden variety, generality,
     habitualness, hackneyedness, homeliness, humbleness, ignobility,
     incidence, inferiority, inferiorness, insipidness, inveteracy,
     inveterateness, lowliness, lowness, matter-of-factness, meanness,
     mustiness, normality, oftenness, ordinariness, plainness,
     platitudinousness, plebeianism, poorness, prevalence, prosaicism,
     prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, purity, rampantness, reign,
     relative incidence, rifeness, routineness, run, second-rateness,
     settledness, simpleness, simplicity, squareness, staleness,
     standardness, sweepingness, third-rateness, triteness,
     unembellishedness, unexceptionality, unidealism, unimaginativeness,
     unnoteworthiness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unremarkableness,
     unromanticism, usualness, vapidity, widespreadness, wontedness