Meanings
- uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity.
The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness.
1958, Geoffrey Tillotson, Pope and human nature3 more examples
Under these compulsions, it is natural that there should be similarity of technique and style, even on occasion a sameishness in content, between avant-garde poetic movements in different countries.
1974, Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, QuestThis is a pity, especially because one has the feeling that all the members are far too well behaved to make their statements with offensive violence — as a result the general impression was that of a rather uneventful "sameishness" …
1976, Apollo' [...] A certain sameishness is wooed, consciously or unconsciously, in the interest of homogeneity.'
1976, Christopher Palmer, Delius: portrait of a cosmopolitan - uncountableUsualness; normality; familiarity.
The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.
1904, George Newnes, The Strand magazineSynonyms: normalcy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounUsualness; normality; familiarity.
Origin
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