customariness

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Still dim,—perhaps as dim as ever,—but our eyes, or our imagination, have gained an acquaintance, a customariness, with the medium; so that we can discern things now a little more distinctly than of old.

From Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It was, as a matter of fact, customariness of thought and action and the quintessence of convention that was desired.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore