prosaicnessn.
/prə(ʊ)ˈzeɪᵻknᵻs/, U.S. /prəˈzeɪᵻknᵻs/, /proʊˈzeɪᵻknᵻs/ The condition or fact of being prosaic; prosaic quality or character.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usualness > commonplaceness
vulgarity1646
vulgeralitya1681
commonplaceness1808
everydayness1840
prosaicness1852
prosaism1855
hackneydom1867
prosaicalness1876
quotidianism1913
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
1852 H. Melville Pierre vii. i. 173 This wonderful story of the girl had displaced all commonness and prosaicness from his soul.
1887 Jrnl. Educ. Feb. 79 That Dutch picture..in its unadulterated materiality and prosaicness.
1929 Michigan Law Rev. 27 786 That the government or the sovereign can not be sued without its consent has been so often repeated that it has attained the prosaicness of a legal maxim.
1954 C. Timberlake Bishop of Broadway v. 44 A school teacher..who sought an escape from the prosaicness of pedagogy into the glamorous world of the theater.
1987 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Sept. 1025/4 Against such prosaicness the Devil himself would contend in vain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1852