commonness adjective
com·mon
The adjective form of commonness is common
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- adjective commonness belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property; common interests. 1
- adjective commonness pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or culture; public: a common language or history; a common water-supply system. 1
- adjective commonness joint; united: a common defense. 1
- adjective commonness widespread; general; ordinary: common knowledge. 1
- adjective commonness of frequent occurrence; usual; familiar: a common event; a common mistake. 1
- adjective commonness hackneyed; trite. 1
- adjective commonness of mediocre or inferior quality; mean; low: a rough-textured suit of the most common fabric. 1
- adjective commonness coarse; vulgar: common manners. 1
- adjective commonness lacking rank, station, distinction, etc.; unexceptional; ordinary: a common soldier; common people; the common man; a common thief. 1
- adjective commonness Dialect. friendly; sociable; unaffected. 1
- adjective commonness Anatomy. forming or formed by two or more parts or branches: the common carotid arteries. 1
- adjective commonness Prosody. (of a syllable) able to be considered as either long or short. 1
- adjective commonness Grammar. not belonging to an inflectional paradigm; fulfilling different functions that in some languages require different inflected forms: English nouns are in the common case whether used as subject or object. constituting one of two genders of a language, especially a gender comprising nouns that were formerly masculine or feminine: Swedish nouns are either common or neuter. noting a word that may refer to either a male or a female: French élève has common gender. English lacks a common gender pronoun in the third person singular. (of a noun) belonging to the common gender. 1
- adjective commonness Mathematics. bearing a similar relation to two or more entities. 1
- adjective commonness of, relating to, or being common stock: common shares. 1