Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being typical.

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  • noun The state of being typical or of a type.

Etymologies

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From typical +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • The Sicilians seem to take pride in their typicalness.

    24 September 1986 2000

  • What I disliked about her letters, what irritated me was -- and there was nothing exceptional -- about this; rather, it was their typicalness that was so striking -- was her statement along the lines of, ` We want to make sure you get your fair shakes as a victim.

    Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber 1997

  • The Jewish polity is only abrogated in regard of what was in it of particular right, not of common right: so far as there was in their laws either a typicalness proper to their church, or a peculiarness of respect to their state in that land of promise given unto them.

    The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

  • Julie Powell had a progression that in its typicalness was somehow archetypal: several years earlier she created a blog devoted to her attempt to spend a year cooking recipes only from Julia Child's

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Julie Powell had a progression that in its typicalness was somehow archetypal: several years earlier she created a blog devoted to her attempt to spend a year cooking recipes only from Julia Child's

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Julie Powell had a progression that in its typicalness was somehow archetypal: several years earlier she created a blog devoted to her attempt to spend a year cooking recipes only from Julia Child's

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Julie Powell had a progression that in its typicalness was somehow archetypal: several years earlier she created a blog devoted to her attempt to spend a year cooking recipes only from Julia Child's

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Entropy counts the “typicalness” of the system’s microscopic state, from the point of view of macroscopic observers.”

    Have a Thermodynamically Consistent Christmas Sean 2008

  • Entropy counts the “typicalness” of the system’s microscopic state, from the point of view of macroscopic observers.

    Have a Thermodynamically Consistent Christmas Sean 2008

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