mediocrity

n., pl., -ties.

1. The state or quality of being mediocre.
2. Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.
3. One that displays mediocre qualities.

mediocritize me·di·oc'ri·tize' (-tīz') v.
mediocritization me·di·oc'ri·ti·za'tion n.

n

Definition: nonentity
Antonyms: star

n

Definition: ordinariness
Antonyms: excellence

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
  Synonym: averageness

Meaning #2: a person of second-rate ability or value
  Synonym: second-rater

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Quotes:

"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind." - John Stuart Mill

"It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further." - James Russell Lowell

"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy." - Scott Alexander

"There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!" - Jean De La Bruyere

"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was." - Thomas Carlyle

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - middelmådighed, middelmådig person

Nederlands (Dutch)
middelmatigheid, middelmatig persoon

Français (French)
n. - médiocrité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Mittelmäßigkeit, mittelmäßiger Mensch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μετριότητα

Italiano (Italian)
mediocrità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mediocridade (f)

Русский (Russian)
посредственность

Español (Spanish)
n. - mediocridad, medianía

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - medelmåttighet, medelmåtta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
平常, 平庸之才

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 平常, 平庸之才

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 평범, 범인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 平凡, 平凡人, 凡人, 普通

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مستوى دون التوسط‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בינוניות, אדם או דבר בינוני‬

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