commonplaceness

From the outset his aim was to portray life with entire fidelity in all its commonplaceness, and yet to charm the reader into a liking for this commonplaceness and into reverence for what it conceals.

I understand what fierce parental pride is at the bottom of many a father’s or mother’s blindness to faults and commonplaceness.

Afterward, when I heard Maida Odell's story, I knew what strange surroundings she had given herself in the rich commonplaceness of that old home which had been hers since childhood.

A heavy, or sometimes turgid, journalistic commonplaceness sat upon it.

"Our experience doesn't leave much of Herrick's idea about the commonplaceness of crime—" "Oh, yes, it does!"