Prosaicism

2 definitions found

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

  Prosaicism \Pro*sa"i*cism\, n.
     The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or
     style. [R.] --Poe.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "prosaicism":
     aridity, aridness, banality, barrenness, bromide, chestnut, cliche,
     commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness,
     corn, dearth of ideas, dryness, dullness, familiar tune, flatness,
     hackneyed saying, infecundity, infertility, insipidness,
     lieu commun, locus communis, matter of fact, matter-of-factness,
     old joke, old saw, old song, old story, plainness, platitude,
     prosaicness, prosaism, prose, prosiness, reiteration, retold story,
     rubber stamp, shibboleth, staidness, stereotyped saying, stolidity,
     stuffiness, tag, trite saying, triticism, truism, twice-told tale,
     uncreativeness, unembellishedness, unfancifulness, unidealism,
     unimaginativeness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unromanticism,
     vapidity