quotidian

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Realism is a mimicry of life in the quotidian, not the heroic or the cataclysmic; at its core, the greatest of all dramas can be simply the passage of time.

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  1. adjective Everyday; commonplace: "There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute” (Anita Diamant).
  2. adjective Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.

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  • I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr. Johnson's own fabrication; but I have since found it in —  Life of Johnson
  • Realism is a mimicry of life in the quotidian, not the heroic or the cataclysmic; at its core, the greatest of all dramas can be simply the passage of time. —  Can This Marriage Be Saved?
  • Swift asked the older man. —  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • 'Neither have they, but I heard. —  The Hawk Eternal
  • He would not give up. —  Morgawr
 

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  1. Middle English cotidien, from Old French, from Latin quōtīdiānus, from quōtīdiē, each day : quot, how many, as many as; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + diē, ablative of diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English cotidien, from Old French quotidien, cotidien, French quotidien = Provencal cotidian, cotedian = Spanish cotidiano = Portuguese Italian quotidiano, from Latin quotidianus, cottidianus, daily, from quotidie, cottidie, cotidie, daily, from quot, as many as, + dies, day: see dial.
 

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/kwəˈtɪdiən/
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