commonness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
commonness
    n 1: the state of being that is commonly observed [syn:
         {commonness}, {expectedness}]
    2: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn:
       {coarseness}, {commonness}, {grossness}, {vulgarity},
       {vulgarism}, {raunch}]
    3: ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and
       commonplace [syn: {commonness}, {commonplaceness},
       {everydayness}] [ant: {uncommonness}]
    4: sharing of common attributes [syn: {commonality},
       {commonness}] [ant: {individualism}, {individuality},
       {individuation}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Commonness \Com"mon*ness\, n.
   1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the
      commonness of sunlight.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Triteness; meanness.
      [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "commonness":
      Attic simplicity, accustomedness, averageness, banality, banalness,
      baseness, chasteness, classical purity, cliche, coarseness,
      common occurrence, commonality, commonplaceness, confirmedness,
      conventionality, corniness, currency, customariness, dullness,
      extensiveness, familiarness, fixedness, flatness, fourth-rateness,
      frequence, frequency, fustiness, garden variety, generality,
      habitualness, hackneyedness, homeliness, humbleness, ignobility,
      incidence, inferiority, inferiorness, insipidness, inveteracy,
      inveterateness, lowliness, lowness, matter-of-factness, meanness,
      mustiness, normality, oftenness, ordinariness, plainness,
      platitudinousness, plebeianism, poorness, prevalence, prosaicism,
      prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, purity, rampantness, reign,
      relative incidence, rifeness, routineness, run, second-rateness,
      settledness, simpleness, simplicity, squareness, staleness,
      standardness, sweepingness, third-rateness, triteness,
      unembellishedness, unexceptionality, unidealism, unimaginativeness,
      unnoteworthiness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unremarkableness,
      unromanticism, usualness, vapidity, widespreadness, wontedness

    

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