sameishness
English
Etymology
From sameish + -ness.
Noun
sameishness (uncountable)
- The state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity.
- 1958, Geoffrey Tillotson, Pope and human nature:
- The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness.
- 1974, Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, Quest:
- Under these compulsions, it is natural that there should be similarity of technique and style, even on occasion a sameishness in content, between avant-garde poetic movements in different countries.
- 1976, Apollo:
- This is a pity, especially because one has the feeling that all the members are far too well behaved to make their statements with offensive violence — as a result the general impression was that of a rather uneventful "sameishness" [...]
- 1976, Christopher Palmer, Delius: portrait of a cosmopolitan:
- ' [...] A certain sameishness is wooed, consciously or unconsciously, in the interest of homogeneity.'
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- Usualness; normality; familiarity.
- 1904, George Newnes, The Strand magazine:
- The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.
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Synonyms
- (usualness; normality; familiarity): normalcy, normaldom, normality, normalness; see also Thesaurus:normality