Commonplace
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As an adjective commonplace (from common and place) means ordinary; having no remarkable features. As a noun it denotes a platitude or cliché or something that is ordinary.
See also
- Bouvard et Pécuchet
- Commonplace (literary genre)
- normal (behavior)
- platitude
- Literary topos, the concept in rhetoric based on "commonplaces" or standard topics
Locus communis
"Commonplace" is a translation of the Latin term locus communis which means "a theme or argument of general application", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom.
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