Sameness

Definitions

1. The quality of being the same; identity.
2. The state of being equivalent; equality.
3. A tiring lack of variety; monotony.

Equivalents

Examples

“All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place⟳; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand⟳ a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.”

“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”

“[…] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]”

“O to sail⟳ to sea in a ship! / To leave⟳ this steady unendurable land⟳, / To leave⟳ the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses, / To leave⟳ you O you solid motionless land⟳, and entering a ship, / To sail⟳ and sail⟳ and sail⟳!”

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