[syn: commonality, commonness]
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]
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]
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