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ordinariness

Noun

Meaning

the quality of being commonplace and ordinary

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. Taylor Caldwell

Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness. Deb Caletti

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate. Ronald Blythe

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique. Katherine Dunn

I would say that these days of crisis and tragedy are to remind us all to be present in the ordinariness of our lives. Oprah Winfrey

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness. Donald Judd

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