mundanity
English edit
Etymology edit
mundane + -ity (“quality of”)
Noun edit
mundanity (countable and uncountable, plural mundanities)
- mundaneness; the characteristic of being mundane
- Synonyms: ordinariness, plainness; see also Thesaurus:normality
- 2013 November 16, Patrick McGuinness, “Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)[1], page R20:
- Proust's novel grew and deepened into over 3,000 pages of everything and nothing: a Möbius strip of profundity twisting into mundanity, mundanity twisting into profundity.