ORDINARINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ordinariness mean? 

• ORDINARINESS (noun)
  The noun ORDINARINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being commonplace and ordinary

  Familiarity information: ORDINARINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDINARINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being commonplace and ordinary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

mundaneness; mundanity; ordinariness

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)

extraordinary (beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable)

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

averageness; mediocrity (ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding)

expectedness (ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising)

commonness; commonplaceness; everydayness (ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace)

Antonym:

extraordinariness (the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered)

Derivation:

ordinary (lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered)

ordinary (not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree)