sameishness

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English

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Etymology

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From sameish +‎ -ness.

Noun

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sameishness (uncountable)

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity.
    • 1958, Geoffrey Tillotson, Pope and human nature:
      The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness.
    • 1974, Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, Quest:
      Under these compulsions, it is natural that there should be similarity of technique and style, even on occasion a sameishness in content, between avant-garde poetic movements in different countries.
    • 1976, Apollo:
      This is a pity, especially because one has the feeling that all the members are far too well behaved to make their statements with offensive violence — as a result the general impression was that of a rather uneventful "sameishness" [...]
    • 1976, Christopher Palmer, Delius: portrait of a cosmopolitan:
      ' [...] A certain sameishness is wooed, consciously or unconsciously, in the interest of homogeneity.'
  2. Usualness; normality; familiarity.
    • 1904, George Newnes, The Strand magazine:
      The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.

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