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commonplaceism
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English
Etymology
From commonplace + -ism.
Noun
commonplaceism (countable and uncountable, plural commonplaceisms)
- (uncountable) The quality of being commonplace; banality.
- 1855, The Evangelical Repository, volumes 1-2, page 72:
- Hence the interminable commonplaceism and prolixity of his writings.
- (countable) Something that is commonplace; a trite remark.
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