Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being prosy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.
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- noun The quality or state of being
prosy ;tediousness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting
Etymologies
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Examples
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She repeats the word “wallpaper” twice in two lines of a poem—an unheard-of prosiness.
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She repeats the word “wallpaper” twice in two lines of a poem—an unheard-of prosiness.
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The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing from the bravery of the movement.
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In his walk he strutted; and, in this respect, he bore a faint resemblance to the pigeon, as well as in a certain prosiness of speech, which might, in its monotony, be likened to the cooing of that bird.
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Since I could read none of them, I was spared their deadly prosiness.
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His prosiness felt to him as if he had spat on consecrated earth.
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In point of fact, with the passage of the days not only Gibreel, but everything which had befallen Saladin of late that was irreconcilable with the prosiness of everyday life came to seem somehow irrelevant, as even the most stubborn of nightmares will once you've splashed your face, brushed your teeth and had a strong, hot drink.
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Boy, 'and' Peter Bell, 'and great masses of hopeless prosiness in his long blank-verse narratives.
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I am an old man now, and you must forgive an old man's prosiness; but a little sadness comes into my thoughts when I muse on the past.
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His facts and speculations will thus interest a large and valuable class of readers, while to some few of another class a certain suspicion of prosiness will be distasteful.
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