Commonness

Definition: Commonness

Commonness

Noun

1. The state of being that is commonly observed.

2. The quality of lacking taste and refinement.

3. Ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace.

4. Sharing of common attributes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "commonness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Synonyms: Commonness

Frequency

Noun: frequency, oftness, oftenness, commonness; repetition; normality; example (conformity); routine, custom (habit).

Normality

Noun: normality, normalcy, normalness; familiarity, naturalness; commonness (frequency); rule, standard (conformity); customary (habit); standard, pattern (prototype).

Crosswords: Commonness

And as different degrees of industry were apt to give men possessions in different proportions, so this invention of money gave them the opportunity to continue and enlarge them: for supposing an island, separate from all possible commerce with the rest of the world, wherein there were but an hundred families, but there were sheep, horses and cows, with other useful animals, wholsome fruits, and land enough for corn for a hundred thousand times as many, but nothing in the island, either because of its commonness, or perishableness, fit to supply the place of money; what reason could any one have there to enlarge his possessions beyond the use of his family, and a plentiful supply to its consumption, either in what their own industry produced, or they could barter for like perishable, useful commodities, with others? Where there is not some thing, both lasting and scarce, and so valuable to be hoarded up, there men will not be apt to enlarge their possessions of land, were it never so rich, never so free for them to take: for I ask, what would a man value ten thousand, or an hundred thousand acres of excellent land, ready cultivated, and well stocked too with cattle, in the middle of the inland parts of America, where he had no hopes of commerce with other parts of the world, to draw money to him by the sale of the product? It would not be worth the enclosing, and we should see him give up again to the wild common of nature, whatever was more than would supply the conveniencies of life to be had there for him and his family. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Emphasize the commonness of the problem. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

thjeshtësi (bareness, chastity, informality, modesty, naivety, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, unpretentiousness), gjë e thjeshtë, banalitet (banality, platitude, salacity). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عموم شمول (generality), ‏شيوع (propagation, publicity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпространеност, вулгарност (bad form, blatancy, scurrility, vulgarism, vulgarity), баналност (baldness, banality, nothingness, platitude, truism), простащина (philistinism, rankness, vulgarism, vulgarity). (various references)

Finnish

yleisyys (frequency, universality), tavallisuus (frequency). (various references)

French

fréquence, banalité. (various references)

German

häufigkeit (frequency, incidence, prevalence). (various references)

Greek 

συνήθεσ (usualness). (various references)

Hebrew 

שכיחות (frequency, incidence, prevalence), �"מו� יות (boorishness, vulgarity), �"�"יוטות (boorishness, foolishness, ignorance, laity, vulgarity). (various references)

Hungarian

köznapiság (drabness, triviality), gyakoriság (frequency). (various references)

Indonesian

keawaman (generalness). (various references)

Italian

normalit� (normality). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

共通 (community). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうつう (chest pain, community). (various references)

Manx

injillid (condescension`, flatness, humility, inferiority, lowness), cadjinys (colloquialism, generality, normality). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommonnesscay

Portuguese

vulgaridade (banality, flatness, platitude, triviality, vulgarism, vulgarity), frequência (attendance, frequency, repair). (various references)

Russian 

обычность, обыденность. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

osrednjost (mediocrity). (various references)

Spanish

ordinariez (vulgarity), frecuencia (elegance, elegancy, frequency, incidence, periodicity, prevalence), actividad (activity, ado, briskness, movement). (various references)

Swedish

banalitet (banality, platitude, triviality). (various references)

Turkish

sıradanlık (bathos, mediocrity), bol bulunma, bayağılık (abjection, abjectness, banality, coarseness, inferiority, platitude, shoddy, tawdriness, vulgarism, vulgarity), adilik (banality, baseness, contemptibility, dastardliness, dinginess, dirtiness, inferiority, lewdness, meanness, slavishness, smallness, sordidness, vulgarity), çokluk (affluence, ampleness, amplitude, considerable, crowd, fullness, fulness, heaviness, host, lashings, muchness, multeity, multiplicity, multitude, plenitude, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plurality, superfluity, throng, vastness). (various references)

Ukrainian

звичайність (homeliness, ordinariness), банальність (banality, commonplace, flatness, humdrum, platitude, vapidity), посередність (mediocrity, ordinariness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính thô tục (filthiness, hoggishness, piggishness, ribaldry, scurrility), tính phổ thông tính tầm thường, tính phổ biến (universality), tính chất chung (universality), tính chất công cộng tính thông thường, tính chất công. (various references)

Welsh

cyffredinwch. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "commonness": commonnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "commonness": uncommonness. (additional references)

Words containing "commonness": uncommonnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Commonness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commonish. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: consommes.

-2 letters: consomme.

-3 letters: commons, noncoms.

-4 letters: common, comose, cosmos, mesons, nonces, noncom, nooses, osmose, scones, socmen.

-5 letters: comes, cones, conns, coons, coses, memos, meson, momes, monos, moons, moose, mosso, neons, nomen, nomes, nomos, nonce, nones, noons, noose, noses, omens, onces, scone, sones.

+1 letter: commonsense.

+2 letters: commonnesses, uncommonness.

+4 letters: commonsensible, commonsensical, uncommonnesses.

+5 letters: commensurations, commonplaceness, decommissioning, recommissioning.