Mundanity
/mʌnˈdæn.ɪ.ti/noun
The quality or state of being ordinary, commonplace, or worldly.
Did you know?Mundanity comes from Latin mundanus, meaning “of the world,” from mundus, “world” — a word that later fed English ideas of the “mundane” as the opposite of the sacred or celestial.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*men-
“to think, have in mind”
Latin
Latin
mundus
“the world; also clean, neat, elegant”
Latin
Latin
mundānus
“of the world, worldly”
Late Latin
Latin
mundanitas
“worldliness”
Middle English
English
mundanite
“worldliness, the quality of being worldly”
Modern English
English
mundanity
“the state or quality of being ordinary or commonplace”