Meaning & use

mundanity

noun·Advanced

The quality of being ordinary, dull, or unremarkable, especially in everyday routine.

See it in a sentence

The novel captures the quiet mundanity of small-town life in vivid detail.

After the excitement of the trip, she struggled to return to the mundanity of office work.

A note on using this word

Mundanity is the noun form of mundane, and is somewhat less common in everyday speech than the adjective itself.

Words with a similar meaning

ordinarinessbanalitydullness

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Words with an opposite meaning

excitementextraordinariness

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