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sameyness

sameyness noun: the quality of being samey.

Noun

sameyness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being samey.
    • Viktor Lofgren, a Swedish software developer and consultant who created his own indie search engine called Marginalia, told me, “One part of the sameyness is that recommendation and prediction algorithms often seem to work almost too well.”2022 March 10, Kyle Chayka, quoting Viktor Lofgren, “What Google Search Isn’t Showing You”, in The New Yorker

Forms of sameyness

alternative formsaminess

Origin of sameyness

From samey + -ness.

Questions about sameyness

What does sameyness mean?
Sameyness means the quality of being samey.
What part of speech is sameyness?
Sameyness is a noun.

Words near sameyness in the dictionary

  1. samesexers
  2. samesies
  3. samething
  4. samethings
  5. samey
  6. sameyness
  7. samfie
  8. samfies
  9. samfoo
  10. samfoos
  11. Samford

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