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Is not the commonplaceness, the humdrumness, the dead-levelness, of life largely a matter of individual vision, "as I see it"?

From The Hills of Hingham by Sharp, Dallas Lore

I certainly have got a case of humdrumness and fatigue on for the ones I do know.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.

The same spirit which induces a man to break out of orthodox humdrumness, induces him to love the marvellous, the forbidden, the odd, the wild, the droll—even as I do. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

When they were older they planned to marry, but neither wanted to settle down to the humdrumness that they had always known.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Stewart, Elinore Pruitt