unspecialness

English

Noun

unspecialness (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being unspecial.
   • 2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 29:

     Maybe human civilisation is like a single life – we grow out of the royalty of childhood into supreme normality; we find out about our own unspecialness and in a flush of innocence we feel quite glad – if we’re not special then we might not be alone.

   • 2024 May 20, Wikipedia contributors, “Christine Kenneally”, in English Wikipedia‎^[1], Wikimedia Foundation:

     Her work for the New Scientist includes an article about the debate about the impact of the Human Genome Project and the unspecialness of being human.

Synonyms

• ordinariness