Sameness

3 definitions found

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

  Sameness \Same"ness\, n.
     1. The state of being the same; identity; absence of
        difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity;
        as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of
        appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." --Bp.
        Horsley.


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     2. Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
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     Syn: Identity; identicalness; oneness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sameness
       n 1: the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them
            together" [ant: {difference}]
       2: the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety; "he
          had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work";
          "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
          [syn: {monotony}]

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

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "sameness":
     accordance, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping,
     approach, approximation, assimilation, broken record,
     clockwork regularity, closeness, coequality, coincidence,
     community, comparability, comparison, conformity, congruence,
     constancy, copying, correspondence, daily round, dingdong, drone,
     equality, equivalence, equivalency, even pace, even tenor,
     homogeneity, homoousia, humdrum, identity, imitation,
     indistinguishability, invariability, irk, irksomeness, likeness,
     likening, metaphor, mimicking, monologue, monotone, monotonousness,
     monotony, nearness, no difference, oneness, orderliness, par,
     parallelism, parity, regularity, resemblance, sameliness,
     self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance,
     similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, singsong, smoothness,
     synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, tedium, the beaten track,
     the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill,
     the weary round, treadmill, undeviation, undifferentiation,
     uniformity, unity, unvariation, wearisome sameness