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saminess

saminess is the alternative spelling of sameyness.

Meaning of sameyness

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

Noun capitalized: Saminess

Saminess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being Sami.
    • My question was thus formulated "What is the relation between language and Saminess?" Some informants gave a personal definition of Saminess, others commented on the relationship between the two concepts.2005, Annika Jansson, Sami language at home and at school: a fieldwork perspective
    • The Saminess, for their grandparents, was not so much a reflexive matter as something naturalized and implicit.2011, Dieter K. Müller, Alain A. Grenier, Polar Tourism: A Tool for Regional Development, page 189
    Synonyms:
    Lappishness

Synonyms of saminess

Origin of saminess

From samey + -ness.

From Sami + -ness.

Questions about saminess

What does saminess mean?
Saminess means the quality of being Sami.
What is saminess the alternative spelling of?
Saminess is the alternative spelling of sameyness.
What part of speech is saminess?
Saminess is a noun.

Words near saminess in the dictionary

  1. samiel
  2. samiels
  3. Samiko
  4. Samiksha
  5. Samikshavad
  6. saminess
  7. Samiot
  8. Samiote
  9. Samiotes
  10. Samiots
  11. Samir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saminess (page history and authors); Saminess (page history and authors); sameyness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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