mundaneness
- noun
- /mʌnˈdeɪnəs/
- However, the mundaneness of the object and the simplicity of the process should not lead us to overlook the significance of what was going on, for in the act of repeatedly copying the same text over and over again and then passing it from hand to hand, the members of the Muslim Youth were not simply engaging in an exchange of ideas.
And it keeps you from having to deal with what you consider to be the mundaneness of your own life.
- And it keeps you from having to deal with what you consider to be the mundaneness of your own life.
- You know, I don't want to call it a rat race, but we're so caught up in, you know, the mundaneness.
Examples
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And it keeps you from having to deal with what you consider to be the mundaneness of your own life.
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The mundaneness of ordinary emotional life has been described in the following way:
Academic text (1999) -
And it keeps you from having to deal with what you consider to be the mundaneness of your own life.
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Validating this experience is important as trauma survivors learn to cope with the mundaneness of ordinary life experiences.
Academic text (2008) -
We can easily get bogged down in the mundaneness of life, caught up in the daily grind of just living and surviving, yet at the same time, most of us are also searching for something bigger, some deeper meaning to it all.
Blog text (9) -
How do you restructure everything in a country so it works more towards the collective goals of the inhabitants of that country, so the hungry are fed, the homeless housed, the sick cared for, etc., while also dealing with everyday mundaneness like when the bins are emptied?
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We did nothing extraordinary that night or the rest of the weekend, but life with Mickey was pleasant for all its mundaneness—a cycle of eating, washing, playing, and sleeping that repeated itself with minor variations.
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The mundaneness of our daily lives causes us to take our existence for granted, but every once in a while we're cajoled out of that complacency and enter into a profound state of existential awareness, and we ask: Why is there all this stuff in the universe, and why is it governed by such exquisitely precise laws?
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Many people find comfort in the mundaneness of their daily routines.
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The mundaneness of his job made him long for a more exciting career.
Synonyms
A boring feeling when things are the same again and again
Being plain and without decoration
A state of being usual and not special
A state that makes you lose interest
A pleasant, polite style that feels too safe or insincere
A state of being ordinary and not interesting
Something that is not interesting or exciting
A lack of energy and interest in speech or writing
The ordinary daily life people live
A state of being ordinary and not special
Lack of flavor or interest that makes something dull
A plain, empty look with no decorations
A plain look that is not attractive
The state of being ordinary and like a normal routine
A quality of being ordinary and not interesting because it appears very often
Being dull and without strong taste or interest
A feeling that something is dull and boring
A serious, old-fashioned style that feels boring
A dull way of writing or speaking that is not creative
The quality of being ordinary and not exciting
The quality of being boring and unoriginal
A calm state with few or no important events
A quality that is plain and without decoration
A very plain, simple style with no decoration or luxury
Not having an attractive appearance
Antonyms
How Ordinary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mundaneness comes from mundane, which comes from the Latin mundus ('world'). So, mundaneness means belonging to the everyday 'world', meaning ordinary and not exciting.