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mundane

adj
/mʌnˈdeɪn//mʌnˈdeɪn/US/mɐnˈdeɪn/UK/mʌnˈdeːn/CA

Etymology

From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundānus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn. (ordinary): Compare typologically Russian несусве́тный (nesusvétnyj) (<~ не- (ne-) + (rare) сусве́тный (susvétnyj) < свет (svet)).

  1. derived from mundus — “world”
  2. derived from mundānus
  3. derived from mondain
  4. inherited from mondeyne

Definitions

  1. Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

  2. Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.

    • Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.

  3. Ordinary

    Ordinary; not new.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Tedious

      Tedious; repetitive and boring.

    2. An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

    3. A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the…

      A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

      • The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes. The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’
      • Some people just think your ^([sic]) a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot ^([sic]) of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes.

    4. A person who is not a Satanist.

    5. The world outside fandom

      The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

      • Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.

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Derived

antemundane, circummundane, extramundane, inframundane, intermundane, intramundane, mundania, mundanism, mundie, nonmundane, submundane, supermundane, supramundane, transmundane, ultramundane, unmundane, mundanely, mundaneness, mundanity

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mundane. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA