Definition of "sameness"
sameness
noun
plural samenesses
The quality of being the same; identity.
Quotations
All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 391
A tiring lack of variety; monotony.
Quotations
O to sail to sea in a ship! / To leave this steady unendurable land, / To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses, / To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship, / To sail and sail and sail!
1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of Joys”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], page 148