sameness
Sameness \Same"ness\, n.
1. The state of being the same; identity; absence of
difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity;
as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of
appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." --Bp.
Horsley.
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2. Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
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Syn: Identity; identicalness; oneness.
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sameness
n 1: the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them
together" [ant: {difference}]
2: the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety; "he
had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work";
"he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
[syn: {monotony}]
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "sameness":
accordance, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping,
approach, approximation, assimilation, broken record,
clockwork regularity, closeness, coequality, coincidence,
community, comparability, comparison, conformity, congruence,
constancy, copying, correspondence, daily round, dingdong, drone,
equality, equivalence, equivalency, even pace, even tenor,
homogeneity, homoousia, humdrum, identity, imitation,
indistinguishability, invariability, irk, irksomeness, likeness,
likening, metaphor, mimicking, monologue, monotone, monotonousness,
monotony, nearness, no difference, oneness, orderliness, par,
parallelism, parity, regularity, resemblance, sameliness,
self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance,
similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, singsong, smoothness,
synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, tedium, the beaten track,
the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill,
the weary round, treadmill, undeviation, undifferentiation,
uniformity, unity, unvariation, wearisome sameness
1. The state of being the same; identity; absence of
difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity;
as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of
appearance, and the like. "A sameness of the terms." --Bp.
Horsley.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Identity; identicalness; oneness.
[1913 Webster]
sameness
n 1: the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them
together" [ant: {difference}]
2: the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety; "he
had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work";
"he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
[syn: {monotony}]
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "sameness":
accordance, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping,
approach, approximation, assimilation, broken record,
clockwork regularity, closeness, coequality, coincidence,
community, comparability, comparison, conformity, congruence,
constancy, copying, correspondence, daily round, dingdong, drone,
equality, equivalence, equivalency, even pace, even tenor,
homogeneity, homoousia, humdrum, identity, imitation,
indistinguishability, invariability, irk, irksomeness, likeness,
likening, metaphor, mimicking, monologue, monotone, monotonousness,
monotony, nearness, no difference, oneness, orderliness, par,
parallelism, parity, regularity, resemblance, sameliness,
self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance,
similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, singsong, smoothness,
synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, tedium, the beaten track,
the daily round, the round, the squirrel cage, the treadmill,
the weary round, treadmill, undeviation, undifferentiation,
uniformity, unity, unvariation, wearisome sameness