Meaning & use

Mundanities

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Ordinary, everyday matters or details that lack excitement or significance.

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Their conversation drifted from grand ambitions to the mundanities of grocery shopping and laundry.

The memoir found unexpected beauty in the mundanities of daily farm life.

A note on using this word

The plural form 'mundanities' is used specifically for the small, unremarkable events that fill everyday life, rather than the abstract quality of being mundane.

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trivialitiesbanalities

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