typicality
State of averageness
Typicality is the quality of being typical—how well something represents its category or conforms to expectations.
Psychologists use the term when studying how people categorize things: a robin has high typicality as a bird, while a penguin has low typicality.
The typicality of her symptoms made diagnosis straightforward.
Arithmetic mean or ordinary
- normalConforming to standard
- ordinaryStandard, unremarkable
- standardLevel of quality accepted
- usualOccurring most often
commonplace · conventional · customary · regularity · uniformity · consistency · baseline · benchmark
Overused, unoriginal expression
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
- oversimplificationStripping complexity unfairly
- tropeRecurring narrative device
typecast · pigeonhole · label · characterization · assumption · prejudice · bias · profile
Standard, unremarkable
- unremarkableNot worthy of comment
- banalUnoriginal and dull
- prosaicLacking imagination or excitement
- humdrumLacking variety or excitement
pedestrian · quotidian · mundane · trivial · generic · familiar · undistinguished · nondescript
Typical perfect instance
- paradigmGoverning framework of thought
- epitomePerfect representative of type
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
ideal · representative · template · pattern · touchstone · reference · criterion · yardstick
Chance something will occur
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- predictabilityCapacity to be anticipated
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- frequencyRate of recurrence
prevalence · odds · chance · tendency · propensity · pattern · regularity · recurrence
average
Arithmetic mean or ordinary
usual · commonplace · conventional · customary · regularity · uniformity · consistency · baseline · benchmark · mean
cliché
Overused, unoriginal expression
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
- oversimplificationStripping complexity unfairly
trope · typecast · pigeonhole · label · characterization · assumption · prejudice · bias · profile · convention
ordinary
Standard, unremarkable
- unremarkableNot worthy of comment
- banalUnoriginal and dull
- prosaicLacking imagination or excitement
humdrum · pedestrian · quotidian · mundane · trivial · generic · familiar · undistinguished · nondescript · unexceptional
exemplar
Typical perfect instance
- paradigmGoverning framework of thought
- epitomePerfect representative of type
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
model · ideal · representative · template · pattern · touchstone · reference · criterion · yardstick · gauge
likelihood
Chance something will occur
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- predictabilityCapacity to be anticipated
- anticipationState of awaiting something
frequency · prevalence · odds · chance · tendency · propensity · pattern · regularity · recurrence · incidence
- class actionsclass action, class member, class members, class period, class representative
- conceptscategorization, abstraction, generalization, family resemblance, basic level
- semanticsmeaning, denotation, sense, connotation, reference
- AI systemsexpert systems, knowledge base, inference, knowledge bases, fuzzy logic
typicalityatypicality
State of being uncommon
abnormality · irregularity · deviance · nonconformity · eccentricity
typicalityexceptionality
Quality of being uncommon
extraordinariness · rarity · uncommonness · unusualness · uniqueness