What does sameness mean?

Definitions for sameness
ˈseɪm nɪssame·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. samenessnoun

    the quality of being alike

    "sameness of purpose kept them together"

  2. monotony, humdrum, samenessnoun

    the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

    "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"

Wiktionary

  1. samenessnoun

    the quality of being the same; identity

  2. samenessnoun

    the state of being equivalent; equality

  3. samenessnoun

    a tiring lack of variety; monotony

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Samenessnoun

    Identity; the state of being not another; not different.

    Etymology: from same.

    Difference of persuasion in matters of religion may easily fall out, where there is the sameness of duty, allegiance, and subjection. Charles I .

    If all courts have a sameness in them, things may be as they were in my time, when all employments went to parliamentmens friends. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. Sameness

    In philosophy, identity (from Latin: identitas, "sameness") is the relation each thing bears only to itself. The notion of identity gives rise to many philosophical problems, including the identity of indiscernibles (if x and y share all their properties, are they one and the same thing?), and questions about change and personal identity over time (what has to be the case for a person x at one time and a person y at a later time to be one and the same person?). It is important to distinguish between qualitative identity and numerical identity. For example, consider two children with identical bicycles engaged in a race while their mother is watching. The two children have the same bicycle in one sense (qualitative identity) and the same mother in another sense (numerical identity). This article is mainly concerned with numerical identity, which is the stricter notion. The philosophical concept of identity is distinct from the better-known notion of identity in use in psychology and the social sciences. The philosophical concept concerns a relation, specifically, a relation that x and y stand in if, and only if they are one and the same thing, or identical to each other (i.e. if, and only if x = y). The sociological notion of identity, by contrast, has to do with a person's self-conception, social presentation, and more generally, the aspects of a person that make them unique, or qualitatively different from others (e.g. cultural identity, gender identity, national identity, online identity, and processes of identity formation). Lately, identity has been conceptualized considering humans’ position within the ecological web of life.

ChatGPT

  1. sameness

    Sameness refers to the condition or state of being identical, similar, or consistent in nature, form, quantity, or degree. It implies a lack of difference or variation between entities, objects, or concepts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Samenessnoun

    the state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like

  2. Samenessnoun

    hence, want of variety; tedious monotony

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sameness in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sameness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of sameness in a Sentence

  1. Ben Wood:

    In a sea of smartphone sameness, retailers need some differentiated features to talk about.

  2. Dilini Fernando:

    With Vizzy, we're cutting through the sea of sameness in the hard seltzer category, where most products have a similar visual identity and proposition.

  3. Kimpton CEO Mike DeFrino:

    We think if people have fun at our hotel they’re going to remember us, they aren’t looking for sameness. They want a place that has sensory spirit.

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Translations for sameness

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  • stejnostCzech
  • ionannasIrish
  • identitate, asemănare perfectă, uniformitate, monotonieRomanian

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