mundanity
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7.2
- noun
- /mʌnˈdeɪnɪti/
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mundanidad
- The mundanity of his daily routine made him long for adventure.
- mundanity of life
Appreciating the mundanity, the small moments.
- Appreciating the mundanity, the small moments.
- And I'm just going to have to go, you know, pursue this sort of mundanity.
- It's about like, how do you inject, you know, that that kind of like that spirit to kind of animate the mundanity of our daily lives.
Examples
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Spielberg's vibrant style just barely offsets the mundanity of parliamentary debate.
Blog text (16) -
So what remains to be shown is whether the mundanity of the dialogue is enough to bring the book down.
Blog text (12) -
That's the mundanity of a job well done.
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Despite its mundanity, her life never allowed pause for things like dreaming or reflection.
Fiction book (1996) -
This is about the day-to-day mundanities from which you derive joy.
Blog text (5) -
It was a puzzle as to when he shopped, did his laundry, or any of the other mundanities that the rest of us take for granted.
Fiction book (2000) -
I understand you shall be working with me. " While Li replied with conversational mundanities, Reyes realized with a jolt that she was holding the door open.
Fiction book (1999) -
A related confrontation with mundanity—all in the name of some leisurely escapism—is undergone by The Other Side.
Blog text (25) -
At school, she had been so shy, so book-enraptured, that the mundanities that he had introduced her to—parties, art openings, foreign films—had set off paroxysms of excitement inside her.
Fiction book (1994) -
She wrote about the mundanity of city life, capturing every ordinary detail.
Synonyms
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5.5
A boring feeling when things are the same again and again
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4.1
A state of being usual and not special
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6.2
A dull, gloomy feeling that makes things seem not interesting
A state of being ordinary and not exciting
The quality of being ordinary and not exciting
A serious, old-fashioned style that feels boring
Antonyms
How Ordinary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mundanity comes from the Latin mundus, meaning 'the world', and shares the same root as the adjective mundane. So mundanity points to the 'everyday' or ordinary side of life, the plain, common things that feel not exciting.