prosaicism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]prosaicism (countable and uncountable, plural prosaicisms)
- The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia:
- 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 […]