prosaism
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French prosaïsme.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editprosaism (countable and uncountable, plural prosaisms)
- 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!