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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of being alike;
- Example: "sameness of purpose kept them together"

2. the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety;
- Example: "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"
- Example: "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"
- Example: "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
[syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sameness \Same"ness\, n. 1. The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." --Bp. Horsley. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony. [1913 Webster] Syn: Identity; identicalness; oneness. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sameness n 1: the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them together" [ant: difference] 2: the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness]