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averageness

averageness noun: the state or quality of being average.

Noun

averageness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being average.
    • ‘Sometimes I feel like itʼs our mediocrity that saved us. Our averageness made us hold on to a centre, in a way that brilliant people canʼt.ʼ2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 374

Origin of averageness

From average + -ness.

Questions about averageness

What does averageness mean?
Averageness means the state or quality of being average.
What part of speech is averageness?
Averageness is a noun.

Words near averageness in the dictionary

  1. averaged
  2. averaged down
  3. averaged out
  4. averaged up
  5. averagely
  6. averageness
  7. averager
  8. averagers
  9. averages
  10. averages down
  11. averages out

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