'Prosaicism' definitions:
Definition of 'Prosaicism'
From: GCIDE
- Prosaicism \Pro*sa"i*cism\, n. The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. [R.] --Poe. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prosaicism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aridity,
- aridness,
- banality,
- barrenness,
- bromide,
- chestnut,
- cliche,
- commonness,
- commonplace,
- commonplace expression,
- commonplaceness,
- corn,
- dearth of ideas,
- dryness,
- dullness,
- familiar tune,
- flatness,
- hackneyed saying,
- infecundity,
- infertility,
- insipidness,
- lieu commun,
- locus communis,
- matter of fact,
- matter-of-factness,
- old joke,
- old saw,
- old song,
- old story,
- plainness,
- platitude,
- prosaicness,
- prosaism,
- prose,
- prosiness,
- reiteration,
- retold story,
- rubber stamp,
- shibboleth,
- staidness,
- stereotyped saying,
- stolidity,
- stuffiness,
- tag,
- trite saying,
- triticism,
- truism,
- twice-told tale,
- uncreativeness,
- unembellishedness,
- unfancifulness,
- unidealism,
- unimaginativeness,
- unoriginality,
- unpoeticalness,
- unromanticism,
- vapidity