commonness
State of ordinariness
Commonness is the quality of being ordinary, widespread, or frequently encountered.
It can be neutral—describing how often something occurs—or mildly disparaging, suggesting a lack of distinction or refinement: the commonness of the design disappointed her.
In older usage, commonness implied vulgarity or low social standing.
Commonplace, lacking excitement
- everydayOccurring each day
- typicalRepresentative of a kind
- normalcyState of being typical
- banalUnoriginal and dull
prosaic · humdrum · routine · mediocre · average · plain · vanilla · garden-variety
Accepted behavioral standard
- standardLevel of quality accepted
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- customHabitual group practice
- baselineStandard for comparison
typical · customary · conformity · mainstream · status quo · default · orthodoxy · tradition
Existing everywhere at once
- pervasivePresent throughout, inescapable
- universalAffecting all equally
- omnipresenceExisting everywhere at once
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
ever-present · ubiquitous · unavoidable · perennial · widespread · prevalent · rife · saturation
Something that takes place
- incidenceRate of occurrence
- regularityConsistent, predictable occurrence
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- repetitionAct of redoing
recurrence · periodicity · prevalence · abundance · proliferation · preponderance · density · distribution
Shared between parties
- collectiveJointly organized group
- universalAffecting all equally
- publicAvailable to all
- jointShared by multiple parties
solidarity · consensus · fellowship · kinship · togetherness · pooled · cooperative · reciprocal
mundane
Commonplace, lacking excitement
banal · prosaic · humdrum · routine · mediocre · average · plain · vanilla · garden-variety · unexceptional
norm
Accepted behavioral standard
- standardLevel of quality accepted
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- customHabitual group practice
baseline · typical · customary · conformity · mainstream · status quo · default · orthodoxy · tradition · expected
omnipresent
Existing everywhere at once
- pervasivePresent throughout, inescapable
- universalAffecting all equally
- omnipresenceExisting everywhere at once
inescapable · ever-present · ubiquitous · unavoidable · perennial · widespread · prevalent · rife · saturation · permeating
occurrence
Something that takes place
- incidenceRate of occurrence
- regularityConsistent, predictable occurrence
- rateMeasured speed or charge
repetition · recurrence · periodicity · prevalence · abundance · proliferation · preponderance · density · distribution · statistics
mutual
Shared between parties
- collectiveJointly organized group
- universalAffecting all equally
- publicAvailable to all
joint · solidarity · consensus · fellowship · kinship · togetherness · pooled · cooperative · reciprocal · shared experience
- possibilitiespossibility, chance, likelihood, probability, odds
- plainnesssimplicity, bareness, starkness, spareness, unadorned
- obscurityinvisibility, anonymity, concealment, hiddenness, obscurity
commonnessrarity
Uncommon occurrence
rareness · scarcity · uncommonness · infrequency · scarceness
commonnessuniqueness
Quality of being singular
extraordinariness · exceptionality · unusualness · distinctiveness · remarkableness
commonnesselegance
Refined, graceful quality
refinement · graciousness · courtliness · grace · sophistication