[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Commonplace quality, absence of striking or remarkable characteristics, dull uninteresting uniformity, ordinariness.
1842. Sterling, Ess. & Tales (1848), I. 456. His speculations have the commonplaceness, vagueness, and emptiness of dreams.
a. 1864. Hawthorne, Septimius Felton (1879), 105. The commonplaceness in which she spent her life.
1871. M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., III. vi. 169. As I was before struck with the fluency of style … I was now equally so with its commonplaceness.
