everydayness
- noun
- /ˈɛvriˌdeɪnəs/
- The engrossment in everydayness is, in fact, a diversion from the fundamental human experiences.
- average everydayness
Examples
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I was angry at the sameness of my life, the pedestrian everydayness of it.
Academic text (2009) -
Now I get the "everydayness of things" thanks.
Blog text (34) -
I felt that enormous power of, of everydayness of the little facts of life.
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I have selected this vignette for the "everydayness" of it.
Academic text (2002) -
The use of the imperfect creates the impression of a past characterized by a sense of repetition and continuity, a sense of the everydayness and naturalness of contemporary events.
Academic text (1990) -
But Solzhenitsyn roots the discontents or consequences of modern progress in our experience of everydayness, in the fact that modern men and women are "consumed in the pursuit of material interests" (LA 120).
Academic text (1998) -
Controversial in its time and place, the wonder of her search, the intensity of her desire to glimpse mysteries thickly shrouded by everydayness, now strikes a more resonant chord within us all.
Fiction book (1990) -
His daily routine was filled with the everydayness that many take for granted.
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She embraced the simplicity and everydayness of life in the countryside.
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The artist captured the beauty found in the everydayness of suburban living.
Synonyms
The usual state when life returns to the expected routine
How often something is found or shared by many people
Everyday quality of ordinary life and routine
A quality of being ordinary and not interesting because it appears very often
The state of being ordinary and like a normal routine
Days or tasks happen the same way again and again
A state of being ordinary and not exciting
Antonyms
How Ordinary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Everydayness is made from every + day and the ending -ness, which turns a word into a 'state'. It shows the simple, ordinary things you see 'every day', so everydayness means the quality of being common or ordinary.