Meanings
nounsameyness (uncountable)
alternative saminess
- uncountableThe quality of being samey.
Viktor Lofgren, a Swedish software developer and consultant who created his own indie search engine called Marginalia, told me, “One part of the sameyness is that recommendation and prediction algorithms often seem to work almost too well.”
2022 March 10, Kyle Chayka, quoting Viktor Lofgren, “What Google Search Isn’t Showing You”, in The New Yorker
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sameyness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sameyness
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“sameyness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sameyness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sameyness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sameyness.
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