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"Mediocrity"
Keywords:
mreaning
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ocris
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acer
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medius
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stony
The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.
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Moderation; temperance.
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Mediocrity is a noun; mediocre is an adjective, which comes to us successively from ME, from MF, from L mediocris, from medius middle; + OL ocris, mreaning stony mountain; akin to L acer, sharp, more at edge, (ca. 1586)
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Keywords:
disparagingly
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person
A mediocre person; -- used disparagingly.
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Keywords:
shone
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raters
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him
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team
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surrounded
a person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"
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Keywords:
consequence
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ordinariness
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outstanding
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average
ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
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