médiocrité
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin mediocritās. By surface analysis, médiocre + -ité.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]médiocrité f (plural médiocrités)
- (archaic or literary) mediocrity (quality of being intermediate between two extremes)
- mediocrity, middlingness
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Emma, en face de lui, le regardait; elle ne partageait pas son humiliation, elle en éprouvait une autre: c'était de s'être imaginé qu'un pareil homme pût valoir quelque chose, comme si vingt fois déjà elle n'avait pas suffisamment aperçu sa médiocrité.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “médiocrité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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