单词 | commonplaceism |
释义 | commonplaceismn. 1. A commonplace, a platitude. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace commonplace1560 household word1574 scholium1830 commonplaceism1831 banality1861 bromide1906 stock response1925 tag-phrase1933 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > use of platitudes > a platitude commonplace1560 platitude1815 commonplaceism1831 goodyism1883 1831 New Monthly Mag. 31 215 That which would pass unheeded as either a clap-trap commonplaceism, or as a vapid puerility, if pronounced to a few, will enkindle a crowd, or excite them to action. 1914 Cincinnati Commerc. Tribune 11 Oct. (Dramatic section) 2/1 White, to use a commonplaceism, is in a class all by himself as a fun maker. 1984 A. Smith Mind xv. 293 The patient producing platitudes and commonplaceisms in lieu of original speech. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > quality of being commonplace or undistinguished ordinarinessa1617 vulgarity1646 greyness1663 commonness1779 commonplaceness1808 commonplace1842 commonplaceism1851 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > state or quality of being trite or banal tameness1530 triteness1727 triticalness1727 tritism1785 commonplaceness1808 prosiness1814 triticism1824 triticality1835 commonplace1842 commonplaceism1851 prosaicness1852 prosaism1855 hackneydom1867 prosaicalness1876 banality1878 mundanity1959 squareness1961 1851 E. Helfenstein in M. E. Hewitt Memorial 91 We may ourselves receive or reject; it is our right—the right of our dullness, our common-placism. 1857 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 18 Commonplaceism per se does not exist. Everybody is interesting to some one or two others. 1907 Dundee Courier & Argus 21 Feb. 6/1 One feature..at once rescues the book from mere commonplaceism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831 |
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