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Webster 1913 Edition


Mundanity

Mun-dan′i-ty

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Noun.
Worldliness.
[Obs.]

Definition 2024


mundanity

mundanity

English

Noun

mundanity (plural mundanities)

  1. The characteristic of being mundane; ordinariness; plainness; worldliness.
    • 2013 November 16, Patrick McGuinness, “Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R20:
      Proust's novel grew and deepened into over 3,000 pages of everything and nothing: a Möbius strip of profundity twisting into mundanity, mundanity twisting into profundity.

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