dailiness
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a word derived from
daily.
Example Sentences
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That needle-drop of wisdom amid life’s dailiness signals Barrett’s unique genius more than any under-35 accolade can.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2022
The beauty of home cooking lies in its dailiness, the way it weaves through all the quotidian activities that seem inconsequential on their own, but when taken together make up the soul of intimacy.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2018
It takes him outside the dailiness we all live in and brings to mind the idea of valor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2015
Her argument is that the dailiness — the “ten thousand things” of small impressions and observations, shifts in mood — define a life, not the plot or wide arcs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2015
Serious, yes; but not religious, or at any rate not religious in the too common sense of the word, in the sense of appertaining to a special reverential mood distinguished from ordinary moods of dailiness.
From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas