different between sageness vs sameness

English

Etymology

sage +? -ness

Noun

sageness (usually uncountable, plural sagenesses)

1. The property of being sage.

Synonyms

• sagacity

See also

• wisdom

English

Etymology

From same +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?se?mn?s/
• Hyphenation: same?ness

Noun

sameness (plural samenesses)

1. The quality of being the same; identity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sameness

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Chapter XXXIV, p. 391, [1]

     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.

   • 1997, Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, translated by John E. Woods, New York: Vintage, 1999, Chapter XX, p. 182,

     However strange it may sound, it always seemed to me […] that Adrian's laughter-filled friendship with Schildknapp had something to do with the sameness of their eye color

2. The state of being equivalent; equality.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:equality

3. A tiring lack of variety; monotony.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tedium

   • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter II, [2]

     […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]

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