Ordinariness
noun
The quality of being normal or common, without any special or distinctive features.
The ordinariness of their daily life was relaxing for them
Often appears as...
- the ordinariness of life
- disguised by ordinariness
noun
The quality of being normal or common, without any special or distinctive features.
The ordinariness of their daily life was relaxing for them
Often appears as...
- the ordinariness of life
- disguised by ordinariness
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Not Negative
Ordinariness isn’t negative; it emphasizes normality and the absence of drama.
I enjoy the ordinariness of weekends at home, doing nothing exceptional.
Pro Tip 2/3Disguise
Ordinariness can suggest something is being hidden beneath a normal appearance.
The spy's ordinariness allowed him to avoid suspicion.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitivity
Use 'ordinariness' where simplicity or routine is valued or observed.
She found peace in the ordinariness of small-town life.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Negative
Ordinariness isn’t negative; it emphasizes normality and the absence of drama.
I enjoy the ordinariness of weekends at home, doing nothing exceptional.
Pro Tip 2/3Disguise
Ordinariness can suggest something is being hidden beneath a normal appearance.
The spy's ordinariness allowed him to avoid suspicion.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitivity
Use 'ordinariness' where simplicity or routine is valued or observed.
She found peace in the ordinariness of small-town life.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Negative
Ordinariness isn’t negative; it emphasizes normality and the absence of drama.
I enjoy the ordinariness of weekends at home, doing nothing exceptional.
Pro Tip 2/3Disguise
Ordinariness can suggest something is being hidden beneath a normal appearance.
The spy's ordinariness allowed him to avoid suspicion.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Sensitivity
Use 'ordinariness' where simplicity or routine is valued or observed.
She found peace in the ordinariness of small-town life.
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Video examples
Eve Ensler: Security and...
and the epidemic of it, and the kind of ordinariness of it, is so devastating to one's soul that you have to take the time, or I have to take the time now, to process that. There are a lot of causes out there in the world that have been talked about,
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Adam Nicolson: The King...
prose in which archaism and hallowed associations were to be avoided and a sense of reality sought now the sense of reality was actually a sense of total ordinariness an idea that information
Video examples
Eve Ensler: Security and...
and the epidemic of it, and the kind of ordinariness of it, is so devastating to one's soul that you have to take the time, or I have to take the time now, to process that. There are a lot of causes out there in the world that have been talked about,
Video examples
Adam Nicolson: The King...
prose in which archaism and hallowed associations were to be avoided and a sense of reality sought now the sense of reality was actually a sense of total ordinariness an idea that information
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Edmund White
American Novelist
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
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Varun Grover
American Writer
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
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Donald Judd
American Artist
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
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Peter York
British Journalist
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
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George Will
Journalist
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
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John Shelton Reed
Sociologist
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
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Ursus Wehrli
Swiss Comedian
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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Ronald Blythe
English Writer
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
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Taylor Caldwell
American Author
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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Edmund White
American Novelist
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
Quote examples
Varun Grover
American Writer
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
Quote examples
Donald Judd
American Artist
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
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Peter York
British Journalist
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
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George Will
Journalist
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
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John Shelton Reed
Sociologist
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
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Ursus Wehrli
Swiss Comedian
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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Ronald Blythe
English Writer
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
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Taylor Caldwell
American Author
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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