Meanings
plural mundanities
- countableuncountablemundaneness; the characteristic of being mundane
Proust's novel grew and deepened into over 3,000 pages of everything and nothing: a Möbius strip of profundity twisting into mundanity, mundanity twisting into profundity.
2013 November 16, Patrick McGuinness, “Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R20Synonyms: ordinariness, plainness, everydayness, normalcy, normaldom, normalhood, normalism, normality
Synonyms & antonyms
nounmundaneness; the characteristic of being mundane
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From mundane + -ity (“quality of”).
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with mundanity
Cite this entry
mundanity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mundanity
“mundanity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mundanity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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