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Mediocrity Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mediocrity? [n] ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding [n] a person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mediocrity: averageness \| second-rater Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mediocrity: a nobody \| a nothing \| adulteration \| average \| balance \| baseness \| bourgeoisie \| burgherdom \| center \| cipher \| common man \| defectibility \| defectiveness \| deficiency \| dull tool \| dummy \| erroneousness \| failure \| fallibility \| faultiness \| fewness \| figurehead \| fourth-rater \| generality \| golden mean \| greenhorn \| happy medium \| immaturity \| impairment \| imperfection \| impurity \| inability \| inaccuracy \| inadeptness \| inadequacy \| inadequateness \| inaptitude \| inaptness \| inattentiveness \| incapability \| incapable \| incapacity \| incompetence \| incompetency \| incompetent \| incompleteness \| indexterity \| ineffectiveness \| ineffectuality \| inefficiency \| ineptness \| inexactitude \| inexactness \| insignificancy \| insufficiency \| jackstraw \| juste-milieu \| lack \| lightweight \| little fellow \| little guy \| littleness \| maladjustment \| maladroitness \| man of straw \| mean \| meanness \| median \| medium \| middle \| Middle America \| middle class \| middle course \| middle ground \| middle order \| middle orders \| middle point \| middle position \| middle state \| middle-of-the-road \| midpoint \| nebbish \| no conjuror \| no prize \| nobody one knows \| nobody special \| nonentity \| norm \| normal \| nothing special \| obscurity \| par \| patchiness \| pedestrianism \| pettiness \| pip-squeak \| punk \| rule \| run \| runt \| rustiness \| scrub \| second-rater \| shabbiness \| shortage \| shortcoming \| shrimp \| silent majority \| sketchiness \| skill-lessness \| small beer \| small fry \| small potato \| small potatoes \| smallness \| squirt \| squit \| subnormality \| suburbia \| third-rater \| thoughtlessness \| tinhorn \| triviality \| unaptness \| uncleverness \| undeftness \| undevelopment \| undexterousness \| undextrousness \| unevenness \| unfitness \| unfittedness \| unintelligence \| unperfectedness \| unproficiency \| unschooledness \| unskillfulness \| unsoundness \| untrainedness \| via media \| vulgarity \| want \| whiffet \| whippersnapper See Also \| human \| individual \| mortal \| ordinariness \| person \| somebody \| someone \| soul Mediocrity In Webster's Dictionary \Me`dioc"rity\, n. [F. m['e]diocrit['e], L. mediocritas.] 1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. ``A mediocrity of success.'' --Bacon. 2. Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] --Hooker.

Mediocrity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mediocrity?

[n] ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
[n] a person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mediocrity: averageness | second-rater

Mediocrity In Webster's Dictionary

\Me`di*oc"ri*ty\, n. [F. m['e]diocrit['e], L.
mediocritas.]
1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a
   moderate degree or rate. ``A mediocrity of success.''
   --Bacon.

2. Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] --Hooker.

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