mundanity

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English

Etymology

From mundane +‎ -ity (quality of).

Noun

mundanity (countable and uncountable, plural mundanities)

  1. mundaneness; the characteristic of being mundane
    Synonyms: ordinariness, plainness; see also Thesaurus:normality
    • 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.