Unspecialness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being unspecial. uncountable

    "Maybe human civilisation is like a single life – we grow out of the royalty of childhood into supreme normality; we find out about our own unspecialness and in a flush of innocence we feel quite glad – if we’re not special then we might not be alone."

Synonyms

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ordinariness

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"Maybe human civilisation is like a single life – we grow out of the royalty of childhood into supreme normality; we find out about our own unspecialness and in a flush of innocence we feel quite glad – if we’re not special then we might not be alone."

Etymology

From unspecial + -ness.

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