commonplace
adjective
ordinary; undistinguished or uninteresting; without individuality.
commonplaceness
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a word derived from
commonplace.
Example Sentences
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The admixture of faith and imagination produces strange results, while it raises us above the commonplaceness of everyday life.
From The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mabel Henriette Spielmann
The commonplaceness of this composition is curiously connected with the languor of thought and touch throughout the work.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by John Ruskin
Let not the commonplaceness of the words rob us of their meaning.
From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King
In Hazlitt’s vocabulary there is nothing striking unless it be the scrupulousness with which he avoids the danger of commonplaceness and of pedantry.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
His Army and Navy girls are better, because they are redeemed from commonplaceness by their patriotism.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
