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sameishness

noun

Etymology

From sameish + -ness.

  1. derived from *sem-✻
  2. derived from *samanai✻
  3. derived from samen
  4. derived from same
  5. suffixed as sameish — “same + ish”
  6. suffixed as sameishness — “sameish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being sameish

    The state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity.

    • The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness.
    • 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.
    • This 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" …

  2. Usualness

    Usualness; normality; familiarity.

    • The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sameishness. 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