Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being mundane; worldliness; worldly feelings; the way of the world.
Wiktionary
- n. The characteristic of being mundane; ordinariness; plainness; worldliness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Worldliness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
- n. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
Etymologies
- mundane + -ity (“quality of”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Voluntary Butler Scheme is Rob Jones of the Midlands, a one-man band who makes songs that you can tap your feet to, songs that have a rinky-dink coastal seaside holiday feeling, that recall the mundanity and ordinariness of 20 th century Britain with a grin.”
“This comment was originally posted on Twitter mundanity said at 9pm on Jan 11th # |”
“But during my entire life, songs continued to pour out of me, as one did the day after "Everything Changed," as I thought about the concept of suburban life, its tranquility -- and its mundanity the day before 9/11.”
The Huffington Post: Harry Spero: Reflections on Writing About the New World
“Twitter is delightful for its lack of complexity allowing anyone to express anything from a grunt to an algorithm, the 140 character limit alternately providing ample room for the idiotic mundanity or just the right amount of constriction to ensure structural economy and possible creative genius.”
“In her work it ranges across the whole spectrum of resonance, from affirmation, celebration, punchy frankness to unpleasantness, insult and mundanity, via the still-thrilling buzz of the just-not-said, and all simultaneously, all in the swivel of a repetition, the shape a word cuts in time.”
“Geosynchron achieves a rare feat for a trilogy-ending volume, namely it takes the series one level higher, beyond mundanity to true sense-of-wonder SF, so it finally plays on the level of the masters of modern SF like [Alistair] Reynolds and [Peter F.]”
“The rishis, who became the world's first yogis, purposely left society to meditate in the forests, turning their backs on the mundanity and suffering of the world.”
The Huffington Post: Eddie Stern: Sheetal Is a Punk Rocker, or How the NYT Wrecks Yoga
“But I also sensed in these long takes that writer/directorCorneliu Porumboiu was consciously going against-the-grain, staging mundanity in real-time with jestful purpose.”
“That was an audacious collision of craziness and mundanity that paved the way for Brenda and Effie, featuring Iris Murdoch logging in to an internet chatroom and Virginia Woolf pursued by Fu Manchu.”
“From the mundanity of our cubicles we get an on-the-ground view of their journeys.”
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Interesting words
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