sameness

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈseɪmnəs/    美 /ˈseɪmnəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being the same; identity.
    — All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.
  2. The state of being equivalent; equality.
  3. A tiring lack of variety; monotony.
    — […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]

词形变化

samenesses plural

词汇关系

近义词
identicality identicalness identity sameliness sameness uniformity
反义词
difference
下位词
tedium
并列词
equivalence fungibility interchangeability commensurateness similarity resemblance

词源

Etymology tree
English same
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English sameness
From same + -ness.
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