Definition of Commonnesses

1. commonness [n] - See also: commonness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonnesses

commonise
commonised
commonises
commonish
commonising
commonition
commonitions
commonitive
commonitory
commonize
commonized
commonizes
commonizing
commonly
commonness
commonnesses
commonplace
commonplace book
commonplace books
commonplaced
commonplacely
commonplaceness
commonplaces
commonplacing
commons
commonsense
commonsensible
commonsensical
commonty
commonweal

Literary usage of Commonnesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Individual and Society: Or, Psychology and Sociology by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"It is through these psychological processes that the great communities or mental commonnesses arise — common thought, common morals, common religion. ..."

2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"... with its renewal in recognition, which pursues its own functional logic—having its coefficients, conversions, testing processes, commonnesses, etc., ..."

3. Anima Poetæ from the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"commonnesses, which are infinitely greater. So I doubt the wisdom of the treatment of sailors and criminals, because it is wholly grounded on their vices, ..."

4. Moral Uses of Dark Things by Horace Bushnell (1881)
"... commonnesses help, as terms of contrast, to garnish any larger whole. They only whet our appetite for something better by starving us in what they are. ..."

5. Studies in the Evolution of English Criticism by Laura Johnson Wylie (1894)
"of occasional commonnesses.1 But these sins of narrowness hardly affect the real exquisiteness of his taste, and its liberality shows itself in ..."

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