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Webster 1913 Edition
Sameness
Same′ness
,Noun.
1.
The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity;
“A sameness of the terms.” as, a
. sameness
of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the likeBp. Horsley.
2.
Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
Syn. – Identity; identicalness; oneness.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sameness
SA'MENESS
, n.1.
Identity; the state of being not different or other; as the sameness of an unchangeable being.2.
Near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as a sameness of manner; a sameness of sound; the sameness of objects in a landscape.Samian earth. [Gr. the isle.] The name of a marl of two species, used in medicine as an astringent.
Definition 2024
sameness
sameness
English
Noun
sameness (plural samenesses)
- the quality of being the same; identity
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Chapter XXXIV, p. 391,
- 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.
- 1997, Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, translated by John E. Woods, New York: Vintage, 1999, Chapter XX, p. 182,
- 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
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Chapter XXXIV, p. 391,
- the state of being equivalent; equality
- a tiring lack of variety; monotony
- 1855, Walt Whitman, "A Song of Joys" in Leaves of Grass, New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 157,
- 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 enter a ship, / To sail and sail and sail!
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter II,
- […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]
- 1855, Walt Whitman, "A Song of Joys" in Leaves of Grass, New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 157,
Translations
quality of being the same
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