prosaism

English

Etymology

Old French prosaïsme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈzeɪ.ɪzəm/, /ˈpɹəʊ.zeɪ.ɪzəm/

Noun

prosaism (countable and uncountable, plural prosaisms)

1. A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is prosaic.
   • 1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Heinrichs:

     Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!

Synonyms

• banality