sameness
Americannoun
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the state or quality of being the same
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lack of change; monotony
Etymology
Origin of sameness
Example Sentences
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In a season of such wondrous unpredictability, there's been a certain sameness about what Hearts have been doing.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
There is a bleak sameness to their contents—desperate pleas to be spared as innocents, loyal to the party and wrongly accused.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Fanning’s ability to hop between a thorny Norwegian drama and a high-concept alien movie is exactly the kind of exciting malleability that audiences forced to wade through modern cinema’s sea of sameness deserve.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
Algorithms engineered for sameness and profit have effectively sidelined provocation.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
This sameness is a result of equal-tempered tuning, however; other tuning systems have been used which cause enharmonic notes to be tuned slightly differently.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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