sameness

Etymology

From same + -ness.

noun

  1. The quality of being the same; identity.
    However strange it may sound, it always seemed to me […] that Adrian's laughter-filled friendship with Schildknapp had something to do with the sameness of their eye color 1997, Thomas Mann, chapter XX, in John E. Woods, transl., Doctor Faustus, New York: Vintage, published 1999, page 182
  2. The state of being equivalent; equality.
  3. A tiring lack of variety; monotony.
    […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […] 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter II

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