## Examples
- The team's performance slipped into mediocrity after its star players left.
- He feared he would be remembered as a mediocrity rather than a genius.

## Derived Forms
- mediocritist
- mediocritize
- multimediocrity
- submediocrity

## Related Forms
- mean
- median
- mediate
- mediation
- mediator
- mediocre
- medium

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: médiocrité
- Root: mediocritās
- Root: *h₂eḱ-

## Etymology
From Middle French médiocrité, from Latin mediocritās, from mediocris; by surface analysis, mediocre + -ity.

## AI Etymology
Mediocrity is from Middle French médiocrité, from Latin mediocritās, from mediocris; by surface analysis, mediocre + -ity. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. Important recorded forms include médiocrité (Middle French), mediocritās (Latin), and *h₂eḱ- (Proto-Indo-European). Current senses include the state of being only average and not very good and a person with only ordinary, second-rate abilities. The wider family includes derived forms such as mediocritist, mediocritize, multimediocrity, and submediocrity; related words such as mean, median, mediate, and mediation.

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