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Definition of Prosaicness
1. Noun. Commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting.
Generic synonyms: Commonness, Commonplaceness, Everydayness
Derivative terms: Prosaic, Prosaic, Prosaic, Prosy
Definition of Prosaicness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being prosaic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosaicness
Literary usage of Prosaicness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1884)
"... whose days are filled with work, whose talk is of her children's wants, whose
life seems so even and uneventful, so complete in very prosaicness—she, ..."
2. Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life by George Jacob Holyoake (1893)
"I was one of the first persons married in his office, intending to testify in
favour of civil marriage, though the prosaicness of the arrangement provided ..."
3. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood: From His Private Correspondence and Family by Eliza Meteyard (1866)
"The announcement of this event to the ' house' in London by Peter Swift is, for
its prosaicness, about the most extraordinary ever penned. ..."
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