averageness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

average +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

averageness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being average.
    • 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 374:
      ‘Sometimes I feel like itʼs our mediocrity that saved us. Our averageness made us hold on to a centre, in a way that brilliant people canʼt.ʼ