Sameness
['seɪmnɪs] or ['semnəs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being alike; 'sameness of purpose kept them together'.
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
(n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Identity, identicalness.[2]. Similarity, resemblance, correspondence.[3]. Monotony, want of variety.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Examples
- She had even learnt to detect, in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I do not mean that it was dull, for it was not entirely so by any means--but there was a good deal of sameness about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But otherwise,' suggested Lightwood, 'there might be a degree of sameness in the life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sameness--sameness! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And father--all men--have it stronger in 'em than me to get tired o' sameness and work for ever. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- A very pleasant routine, with perhaps a slight tinge of sameness. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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