" sameness "

1: a tedious lack of variety;

  * e.g., " ... the endless sameness of what we keep having for dinner is starting to bore me "

•  Synonyms : 

•  humdrum,

•  monotone,

•  monotonousness,

•  monotony

•  Antonyms : 

•  difference,

•  disagreement,

•  discrepancy,

•  disparateness,

•  disparity,

•  dissimilarity,

•  unlikeness

2: the state of being exactly alike;

  * e.g., " ... the sameness of the two essays made the teacher immediately suspect plagiarism "

•  Synonyms : 

•  identicalness,

•  identity

•  Antonyms : 

•  imparity,

•  inequality,

•  nonequivalence

3: the state or fact of being exactly the same in number, amount, status, or quality;

  * e.g., " ... the striking sameness of the results for both experiments suggests that this is a real discovery "

•  Synonyms : 

•  coequality,

•  coordinateness,

•  equality,

•  equivalence,

•  equivalency,

•  par,

•  parity

•  Antonyms : 

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