sameness

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sameness

  • /ˈseɪmnəs/ US, UK

noun samenesses

  1. The quality of being the same; identity. All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.
  2. The state of being equivalent; equality.

    Similar: egality, equality, equation, equivalence, evenness, par, parity, sameness

  3. A tiring lack of variety; monotony. […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]

    Similar: acedia, boredom, monotony, sameness, tediousness, tiresomeness, tedium, wearisomeness

Similar: identicality, identicalness, identity, sameliness, sameness, uniformity · Opposite: difference

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noun quality of being the same

Españolmismidad
DeutschGleichheit, Gleichartigkeit
Românăasemănare perfectă, identitate, monotonie, uniformitate

noun a tiring lack of variety

DeutschGleichförmigkeit

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@misc{sameness_2026,
  title = {sameness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sameness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}