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mundanity|mʌnˈdænɪtɪ|
Also 7 -eity, 20 mondanity.
[a. F. mondanité or ad. med.L. *mundānitā-tem: see mundane and -ity.]
a. The quality or fact of being mundane; worldliness; † in pl., worldly affections or proclivities.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. xxi. 254 The mundanytes that she sawe..to habounde in the sayd courte. 1647Trapp Comm. Eph. ii. 2 The mundaneity or worldlinesse of the world. 1648W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. xx. §i. 376 The love of mundanity, wherein do indeed reside the vital Spirits of the body of Sin. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere ii. xvi, He could have blessed her for the tone, for the escape into common mundanity. 1959Listener 30 July 173/2 The outward mundanity of the master's life. 1963Movie July–Aug. 20/2 The presentation of the torture sequences horrifies by its casual mundanity. 1972Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 8/6 Nothing could be further removed from the mundanities of sausage and haddock than the subject of this book of circumferential recollections. 1974Nature 17 May 199/2 It may mean the moral support that leads to a government grant, permission to work abroad for a spell or even such mundanities as the price of an airline ticket.
b. The characteristics of the fashionable world.
1892Nation (N.Y.) 27 Oct. 324/2 Mr. Sidgwick..carries an air of distinction and mundanity in his style. 1911Mrs. H. Ward Case of Richard Meynell xii. 242 With her grey hair, and her plain widow's dress, she threw her sister's charming mondanity into bright relief.
Add:c. The quality or condition of being ‘mundane’ (sense 1 d), commonplace, or uninteresting; an instance of this.
1959Listener 30 July 173/2 The outward mundanity of the master's life. 1963Movie July–Aug. 20/2 The presentation of the torture sequences horrifies by its casual mundanity. 1972Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 8/6 Nothing could be further removed from the mundanities of sausage and haddock than the subject of this book of circumferential recollections. 1974Nature 17 May 199/2 It may mean the moral support that leads to a government grant, permission to work abroad for a spell or even such mundanities as the price of an airline ticket. 1982Times 3 June 8/7 The rewritten military text-books may..include a chapter or two on the mundanities and achievements of moving from a damp British spring to a frosty near-Antarctic winter. 1986Crafts May/June 12/4 Compared to the majority of provincial galleries, full of aesthetically substandard mundanity, it is refreshing. |