prosaicism

noun

prosaicism

noun

Etymology From prosaic + -ism.

1

The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style.

Through this species of prosaicism, Cowper, with scarcely one of the higher poetical elements, came very near making his age fancy him the equal of Pope […]1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia:

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