COMMONNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commonness mean? 

• COMMONNESS (noun)
  The noun COMMONNESS has 4 senses:

1. the state of being that is commonly observed

2. the quality of lacking taste and refinement

3. ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace

4. sharing of common attributes

  Familiarity information: COMMONNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMONNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being that is commonly observed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

commonness; expectedness

Hypernyms ("commonness" is a kind of...):

normalcy; normality (being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning)

Derivation:

common (commonly encountered)

common (to be expected; standard)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of lacking taste and refinement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

coarseness; commonness; grossness; raunch; vulgarism; vulgarity

Hypernyms ("commonness" is a kind of...):

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Derivation:

common (lacking refinement or cultivation or taste)

common (of low or inferior quality or value)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

commonness; commonplaceness; everydayness

Hypernyms ("commonness" is a kind of...):

mundaneness; mundanity; ordinariness (the quality of being commonplace and ordinary)

Attribute:

common (having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual)

uncommon (not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commonness"):

prosaicness; prosiness (commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting)

usualness (commonness by virtue of not being unusual)

Antonym:

uncommonness (extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and seldom encountered)

Derivation:

common (having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual)

common (being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Sharing of common attributes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

commonality; commonness

Hypernyms ("commonness" is a kind of...):

generality (the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability)

Attribute:

common (belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commonness"):

solidarity (a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group)

Derivation:

common (belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public)

common (of or associated with the great masses of people)

common (common to or shared by two or more parties)