dailiness
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈdeɪliˌnəs/
:
cotidianidad
- She looked like a woman waiting for the bus that would take her to church, her mind emptied of its dailiness, chores and lists, and her family's needs, purged even of bits and pieces of songs from the radio, waiting to be filled up by God.
- the dailiness of life
I know it's, it's the dailiness of being with someone.
- I know it's, it's the dailiness of being with someone.
Examples
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In the dailiness of everyday life, we often overlook the small joys.
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In the short term, it was just dailiness and the dull business of surviving the days.
Fiction book (2002) -
By conducting research on the classroom itself, the teacher and students do not let the dailiness of learning slip away.
Academic text (1998) -
Every day now I file away perceptions, details, worries, the textures of dailiness to share with my husband on the phone or in letters.
Fiction book (2000) -
Except that neither can really soften the drudgery, the dailiness, the exhaustion involved in getting through a day.
Fiction book (2000) -
I sat and listened to that steady dropping, the sound of dailiness, and to the soothing murmur of the woman's voice and the man's reply.
Fiction book (1991) -
When worry with work especially seemed to have deadened me, made me into little more than a manipulator and organizer of paperwork, budgets, and people, poems brought life to me, reminding me that there were dimensions of experience shut out in the dailiness.
Academic text (1992) -
The dailiness of his routine sometimes makes life feel monotonous.
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She captures the dailiness of her surroundings in her paintings.
Synonyms
1
6.8
The ordinary daily life people live
Days or tasks happen the same way again and again
Antonyms
How Exciting
Surface Forms
Morphology
dailiness = daily (transparent) = day + ly + ness
The noun is a regular nominalization of the adjective 'daily' and directly denotes the state or quality of being daily.
Etymology
The word dailiness comes from the simple word day, which means 'each day', became daily ('every day'), and the ending -ness ('the quality of') makes it a noun. So, dailiness is the 'everyday quality' or the state of being part of daily life.