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    commonplaceness


    1. And if he has not, it is a matter of opinion whether he is not better employed in working along the lines of some well-tried manner that will at any rate keep him from doing anything really bad, than in struggling to cloak his own commonplaceness under violent essays in peculiarity and the avoidance of the obvious at all costs


    2. '■ The fanaticism, the romanticism of insignificance and impotence ! " people will pronounce, " the triumph of common-placeness and mediocrity ! " Yes, I admit that it is in a way the triumph of commonplaceness and mediocrity, but surelj' not of impotence


    3. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—


    4. I think such an individual really does become a type of his own—a type of commonplaceness which will not for the world, if it can help it, be contented, but strains and yearns to be something original and independent, without the slightest possibility of being so


    5. I hate you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch, solely (this may seem curious to you, but I repeat)—solely because you are the type, and incarnation, and head, and crown of the most impudent, the most self-satisfied, the most vulgar and detestable form of commonplaceness


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    Synonyms for "commonplaceness"

    commonness commonplaceness everydayness

    "commonplaceness" definitions

    ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace