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unspecialness en · NOUN

Etymology

From unspecial + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being unspecial.
    • Her work for the New Scientist includes an article about the debate about the impact of the Human Genome Project and the unspecialness of being human. 2024 May 20, Wikipedia contributors, “Christine Kenneally”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
    • 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. 2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 29:

Synonyms

ordinariness