Adjective : a commonplace person. ,a commonplace remark.    From Dictionary.com. 

In painful contrast to them stands commonplaceness, always a fatal fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

For a thing to be quickly understood is only a sign of its commonplaceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

Yes, I admit that it is in a way the triumph of commonplaceness and mediocrity, but surely not of impotence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

The week-ends in the still old house drew not a few famous folk who loathed the commonplaceness of convivial atmospheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

“The fanaticism, the romanticism of insignificance and impotence!” people will pronounce, “the triumph of commonplaceness and mediocrity!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

Commonplace persons and commonplace things do appear in literature, but they must have something more than their commonplaceness to recommend them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference

Nonetheless, after they had emerged from their booths into the commonplaceness of the dream chamber, it took them silent minutes to return altogether to themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

The German cracks heavy jokes and the French cynical ones: it is difficult to choose between them as both show little culture and an inherent commonplaceness of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

Scott's work on romances, though it does not always rise above commonplaceness, escapes the perfunctory quality of hack writing by virtue of his keen interest in the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature] Reference

"I should never have suspected you of such commonplaceness, Will.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pagans] Reference

Well, let me assure you of one thing-there's commonplaceness everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaint Courtships] Reference

There was a studied commonplaceness in his manner; his eyes avoided hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Touch of Sun and Other Stories] Reference

Was she, indeed, nothing but this unattractive, faded little commonplaceness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain of Dust] Reference

The whole landscape is transfigured -- lifted high up out of commonplaceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference

All regrets over the probable commonplaceness of a small country wedding had vanished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indifference of Juliet] Reference

I gazed at commonplaceness and dulness -- I mocked at it; and now it has conquered me!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow] Reference

The thought of the essential commonplaceness of this sort of thing recurred to Peter Maginnis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference

To what he felt to be the commonplaceness of her outlook he had long since accustomed himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Just and the Unjust] Reference

Perhaps one reason for her naive stupidity was the commonplaceness of her relations with Blair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Woman] Reference

He was so subtle that he hid the vast range of his powers behind an appearance of commonplaceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Jasper B.] Reference

The dusty road trailed behind the rapid wheels, and revealed vistas of depressing commonplaceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Created Legend] Reference

It was as a part of all this commonplaceness that she regarded the treatise on village-improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

The frozen commonplaceness of the scene was made for me still more oppressive by Signora dell'Acqua.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

The frozen commonplaceness of the scene was made for me still more oppressive by Signora dell 'Acqua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference

Van Vreck asked in a tone which changed to commonplaceness -- if his voice could ever be commonplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Latchkey] Reference

And of himself holding desperately to them all, and to the believed commonplaceness of his surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breaking Point] Reference

"I should have thought your mind might be better occupied now," he retorted with brutal commonplaceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark House] Reference

"That is often so," I hurried to assure her, with the idea of establishing the commonplaceness of such an experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chauffeur and the Chaperon] Reference

As I glanced at him I could not but think how on that very day he had complained bitterly of the commonplaceness of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sign of the Four] Reference

And he was hoping to find reserves of power in her, such as would rescue her from the imputation of commonplaceness in her beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emancipated] Reference

It is not a commonplace book, nor is anything else of its author's; but the price paid for the absence of commonplaceness is excessive.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

From a height of illimitable loftiness the owner of the cardboard treasury looked down upon the squat commonplaceness of those three lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William] Reference

His commonplaceness, when it appears, is not a defect of quality, but an eager human interest in the personalities among whom his lot was cast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyous Gard] Reference

O what poor wretches our fellow creatures now seem to us in their commonplaceness, who yet all, as the patient children and drudges of mother earth, are better than we.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference

The commonplaceness, beside it, of Julia's long-drawn expression made him snicker, until, as a result of this accidental reaction, they were both actually giggling aloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference