sameness
pronunciation
How to pronounce sameness in British English:
UK [ˈseɪmnəs]
How to pronounce sameness in American English:
US [ˈsemnɪs]
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- Noun:
- the quality of being alike
- the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety
Word Origin
- sameness (n.)
- 1580s, from same + -ness.
Example
- 1. Physicists think of symmetry in terms of sameness .
- 2. But the sudden rise of a new web site suggests some people are growing weary of all that sameness .
- 3. To him there was no romance in his gorgeous career , no deeds of daring , no thrills -- nothing but a gray sameness and infinite boredom .
- 4. But his mistake was to stop at the purely negative point of view , and to limit the unconditionality of reason to an abstract self sameness without any shade of distinction .
- 5. If we now ask for the difference between something and another , it turns out that they are the same : which sameness is expressed in latin by calling the pair aliad aliud .