common life
Ordinary daily living
Common life refers to everyday existence shared by ordinary people, as distinct from exceptional circumstances or elevated stations.
It suggests the routine experiences, concerns, and activities that most people encounter: the common life of working, raising children, and paying bills.
The phrase often carries either democratic warmth—celebrating what unites us—or slight condescension toward the mundane.
- ordinaryStandard, unremarkable
- everydayOccurring each day
- day to dayOccurring each morning
- mundaneCommonplace, lacking excitement
- routineRegular sequence of actions
daily grind · nine to five · daily · existence · bread and butter · shared · community · simple · humble · domestic · household · neighbors · next door neighbor · togetherness · shared experience · regularity · normalcy · plain
- monastic lifecelibacy, cloister, habit, vespers, obedience
- monasticismabbeys, abbey, abbots, abbot, cloister
- religious ordersBenedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, Carmelites
common lifereligious life
Life devoted to faith
monastic life · cloistered life · contemplative life · ascetic life
common, life, commonly, commonness, commons, commoner, commonality, uncommon, uncommonly