mundanity

C2
US /mʌnˈdænɪti/
noun Freq #213448

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    mundaneness; the characteristic of being mundane

    Proust's novel grew and deepened into over 3,000 pages of everything and nothing: a Möbius strip of profundity twisting into mundanity, mundanity twisting into profundity.

  2. 2
    noun

    the quality of being commonplace and ordinary

  3. 3
    noun

    the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

Etymology

From mundane + -ity (“quality of”).

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · mundaneness; the... everydaynessmundanitynormalcynormaldomnormalhoodnormalismnormalitynormalnessordinarinessplainnesssameishnessunremarkableness
2 noun · the quality of being... ordinariness
3 noun · the quality or character of... sophistication

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