sameness
[seym-nis]
- the state or quality of being the same; identity; uniformity.
- lack of variety; monotony.
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Origin of sameness
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Contemporary Examples
Such photos generally blur into the sameness of routine, but this particular one is unexpectedly stirring.
There is, from year to year, a sameness to the dire threats from Pyongyang.
But eventually that commitment to ubiquity and sameness killed the company.
But Sanchez is optimistic about his future, which is a good sign for the media, which needs a shock to its sameness.
Historical Examples
There is necessarily a sameness in the records of these pestilences.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
The human mind is a sort of reflection of this, having ideas of Being, Sameness, and the like.
SophistPlato
There is no sameness of existence, but the new mortality is always taking the place of the old.
SymposiumPlato
And sameness has been shown to be of a nature distinct from oneness?
ParmenidesPlato
But how can that which does not partake of sameness, have either the same measures or have anything else the same?
ParmenidesPlato
sameness
- the state or quality of being the same
- lack of change; monotony
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