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sameness|ˈseɪmnɪs|
[f. same + -ness.]
1. The quality of being the same; = identity 1, 2.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxii. (1887) 118 They were ill sundred, whom the samenes of time so vniteth together. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. i. 28 They meane a samenesse for some proportion that is betweene them. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 559 We worship, the Father of Truth, and the Son the Truth it self, being Two Things as to Hypostasis; but one in Agreement, Consent, and Sameness of Will. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 119 If there be the sameness in sinning, the same shall be in suffering. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. iv. §4 Our Idea of sameness, is not so setled and clear, as to deserve to be thought innate in us. 1736Butler Anal. i. i. 17 Personal identity or the sameness of living agents. 1753Scots Mag. XV. 17/2 The sameness of the electrical fire with that of lightning. 1759Capell Prolusions Pref. (1760) 7 Sameness of rythmus, sameness of orthography, and a very near affinity of words and phrases. 1827Whately Logic App. (ed. 2) 305 Sameness, in the primary sense, does not even necessarily imply Similarity. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 139 Likeness is sameness of affections.
2. Absence of variety, uniformity, monotony; an instance of this.
1743H. Walpole Let. to Mann 27 Jan., We are in such a state of sameness that I shall begin to wonder at the change of seasons and talk of the Spring as a strange accident. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wm. (1767) II. viii. 20 There will arise..a sameness and a flatness. 1820J. W. Croker in Smiles Mem. J. Murray (1891) II. xxiii. 86, I shall endeavour to enliven a little the sameness of my author. 1842G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir II. 404 The scenery is sameness itself. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 238 The steady occupations, the beloved samenesses, and the sacred customs of home.
3. ? nonce-use. Agreement in character or style.
1790in W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. Frontisp., Each will require a sameness to the Spot, For this a Cell, a Cascade or a Grot. |