Word · Frequency #23661
sameness
相同，同样
the quality of being alike
可指千篇一律的单调
- 1.
The quality of being the same; identity.
相同的性质；同一性。
- 2.
The state of being equivalent; equality.
等同的状态；相等。
- 3.
A tiring lack of variety; monotony.
令人厌倦的缺乏变化；单调
相同的性质；同一性。；等同的状态；相等。；令人厌倦的缺乏变化；单调；相同；同样
In use
The sameness of the two paintings made it hard to tell them apart.
She was tired of the sameness of her daily routine.
The teacher pointed out the sameness in the students' answers.
the sameness of [noun/gerund]
sameness 常带有贬义，指缺乏变化。
The sameness of the landscape became boring.
景观的千篇一律变得乏味。
a sense of sameness
常用于描述重复性带来的单调感。
After years in the job, he felt a sense of sameness.
做了多年同样的工作，他感到一种千篇一律。
sameness between [plural noun]
用于比较两者或多者之间的相同之处。
Connections
Collocations
- deadly sameness
- 令人厌倦的千篇一律
- The deadly sameness of the hotel rooms made the tour feel endless.酒店房间千篇一律，令人厌倦，让这趟旅行显得没完没了。
- the sameness of everyday life
- 日常生活的千篇一律
- He took up a new hobby to escape the sameness of everyday life.他培养了一个新爱好，以逃避日常生活的千篇一律。
- a sense of sameness
- 一种相同感；一种似曾相识感
- The identical architecture gave the streets a strange sense of sameness.一模一样的建筑让这些街道带有一种奇特的相同感。
- sameness and difference
- 同与异
- The course explores sameness and difference in global cultures.这门课程探讨全球文化中的同与异。
Pop culture & quotes
- They gave up everything for Sameness.
- 他们为了同一性放弃了一切。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
由 same（相同）加名词后缀 ness 构成，sameness 就是“相同；单调”。联想：一模一样的两个苹果，正是 sameness。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：academic writing、philosophical discourse、formal literary criticism 通常用于正式或书面语境，多出现在学术写作、哲学讨论或文学评论中，表示抽象概念；日常口语中较少见。
Grammar Note
不可数名词
Pronunciation & Spelling
Genuine rhymes (same stressed sound /eɪm/ + /nɪs/): lameness /ˈleɪmnɪs/ and tameness /ˈteɪmnɪs/. Beware of lookalikes ending in -less: shameless /ˈʃeɪmləs/, nameless /ˈneɪmləs/, blameless /ˈbleɪmləs/ – they end in /-ləs/, not /-nɪs/, so they do not rhyme. same /seɪm/ shares the root and stressed vowel but lacks the -ness suffix, so it doesn't rhyme either.
Learn the forms together
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Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.