sameishness

English

Etymology

From sameish +‎ -ness.

Noun

sameishness (uncountable)

1. The state, quality, or condition of being sameish; similarity; uniformity.
   • 1958, Geoffrey Tillotson, Pope and human nature:

     The danger for the couplet, a short endlessly recurrent metre, is an effect of sameishness.

   • 1974, Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, Quest:

     Under these compulsions, it is natural that there should be similarity of technique and style, even on occasion a sameishness in content, between avant-garde poetic movements in different countries.

   • 1976, Apollo:

     This is a pity, especially because one has the feeling that all the members are far too well behaved to make their statements with offensive violence — as a result the general impression was that of a rather uneventful "sameishness" [...]

   • 1976, Christopher Palmer, Delius: portrait of a cosmopolitan:

     ' [...] A certain sameishness is wooed, consciously or unconsciously, in the interest of homogeneity.'

2. Usualness; normality; familiarity.
   • 1904, George Newnes, The Strand magazine:

     The gentle sameishness of the milk swishing into the hand-bowl seemed to have soothed the burglar very much.

Synonyms

• (usualness; normality; familiarity): normalcy, normaldom, normality, normalness; see also Thesaurus:normality