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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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
“There’s a lot of sameness out there when it comes to fragrance advertising, and I think that’s why Axe continues to be talked about.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 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
A reason that had to do with the sameness of each and every week.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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