1
as in prevalence
the fact or state of happening often
tardiness of as much commonness as the rising of the sun
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as in lowness
the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste
the socialites were appalled by the newcomer's commonness
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Recent Examples of commonness
At the same time, Tacitus points readers to the prevalence and thus the normalization and commonness of this rhetoric, which can become an inseparable corollary of a program of making war.
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Timothy Joseph,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2026
The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
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Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
Timothy Joseph,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2026
The biggest enemy of scientific progress isn’t groupthink at all, despite the commonness of this accusation.
—
Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commonness
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The growing prevalence of chronic conditions that effect eyesight, such as diabetes, may also increase demand for optical services.
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But underlying a lot of that, say researchers, is also the growing prevalence of stress.
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That feeling stops, however, when pulling into gas stations or parking lots, where the length and lowness of the car require extreme care to keep the chin from scraping.
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Mann and his colleagues have shown an uptick in the frequency of such stuck jet stream patterns, known as planetary resonance events, in recent decades.
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What makes Oh, Mary special is the frequency with which the show brings in new stars.
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The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
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Tell her about the long, unwelcome chats, the bullying and the rudeness.
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All your Dad has to do is fill it and drink—the microfilter membrane will do the rest by removing chlorine odors, dirt, bacteria, and any other grossness floating around in there.
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There are no great surprises from here on out, though the sheer, lusty grossness of the fallout is occasionally startling.
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The result is an aesthetic that skillfully balances a variety of textures, including injecting Shou Sugi Ban custom treatments inspired by Japanese principles of wabi-sabi that typically employ elements of asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity.
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Features such as surface roughness and protruding fibers create more sites where particles can stick to the outer surface rather than passing through.
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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.
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The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.
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The once-vaunted values of public life are now reduced to the lower standards of private life—venality, vulgarity, rudeness, incontinence, and ignorance.
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Benoit delights in language as much as her heroine, weaving Regency-era slang throughout and appending a chapter-by-chapter glossary of vulgarities.
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“Commonness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commonness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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