mundanity

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English mundane

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Latin -itāsder.

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English mundanity

From mundane + -ity (“quality of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʌnˈdænɪti/

Noun

mundanity (countable and uncountable, plural mundanities)

1. mundaneness; the characteristic of being mundane

   Synonyms: ordinariness, plainness; see also Thesaurus:normality

   • 2013 November 16, Patrick McGuinness, “Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1], page R20:

     Proust's novel grew and deepened into over 3,000 pages of everything and nothing: a Möbius strip of profundity twisting into mundanity, mundanity twisting into profundity.