prosaicism

prosaicism
Synonyms and related words:
aridity, aridness, banality, barrenness, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, dearth of ideas, dryness, dullness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, infecundity, infertility, insipidness, lieu commun, locus communis, matter of fact, matter-of-factness, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, plainness, platitude, prosaicness, prosaism, prose, prosiness, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, staidness, stereotyped saying, stolidity, stuffiness, tag, trite saying, triticism, truism, twice-told tale, uncreativeness, unembellishedness, unfancifulness, unidealism, unimaginativeness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unromanticism, vapidity

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  • Prosaicism — Pro*sa i*cism, n. The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. [R.] Poe. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • prosaicism — pro·sa·i·cism …   English syllables

  • prosaicism — āəˌsizəm noun ( s) : prosaism …   Useful english dictionary

  • Prose — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Prose >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 prose prose prose writer GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 prosaicism prosaicism prosaism prosaist proser PARAG:Prose >V GRP: V 1 Sgm: V 1 prose …   English dictionary for students

  • prosaism — /proh zay iz euhm/, n. 1. prosaic character or style. 2. a prosaic expression. Also, prosaicism /proh zay euh siz euhm/. [1780 90; < F prosaïsme see PROSE, ISM] * * * …   Universalium

  • banality — Synonyms and related words: banalness, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, familiar tune, familiarness, fustiness, hackneyed saying, hackneyedness, lieu commun, locus… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • bromide — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, banality, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • chestnut — Synonyms and related words: Joe Miller, Titian, adust, auburn, banality, bay, bay colored, bayard, brazen, bromide, bronze, bronze colored, bronzed, brownish red, buckskin, calico pony, carroty, castaneous, chestnut brown, cliche, commonplace,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • cliche — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, banality, banalness, bathetic, bromide, byword, catch phrase, catchword, chestnut, cliched, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, cry, fad word, familiar tune,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • commonness — Synonyms and related words: Attic simplicity, accustomedness, averageness, banality, banalness, baseness, chasteness, classical purity, cliche, coarseness, common occurrence, commonality, commonplaceness, confirmedness, conventionality, corniness …   Moby Thesaurus

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