Sameness Meaning
/ˈseɪmnəs/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe quality of being the same; identity.
nounThe state of being equivalent; equality.
Sentence Examples
The sameness of my days is wearing me out.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the daily routine made the worker feel bored and tired.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the daily routine began to feel suffocating after several months.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English same Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English sameness From same + -ness.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary."
— 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 391:
"However strange it may sound, it always seemed to me […] that Adrian's laughter-filled friendship with Schildknapp had something to do with the sameness of their eye color"
— 1997, Thomas Mann, chapter XX, in John E. Woods, transl., Doctor Faustus, New York: Vintage, published 1999, page 182:
"[…] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]"
— 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter II:
"O to sail to sea in a ship! / To leave this steady unendurable land, / To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses, / To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship, / To sail and sail and sail!"
— 1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of Joys”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 148:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the daily routine made the worker feel bored and tired.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the daily routine began to feel suffocating after several months.