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The tax life charges you for not dying dramatically.
means The quality or state of being ordinary, dull, and routine — the opposite of extraordinary.
from Traces back to Latin 'mundus,' meaning 'world' — the same root gives us 'mundane.' The sense shifted from simply 'worldly' (as opposed to spiritual or heavenly) to 'ordinary, unremarkable,' since the everyday world, it turns out, is where most of the boredom happens. The '-ity' tacked on later just turns the adjective into an abstract noun — the condition of being relentlessly, forgettably normal.
- etymology
- From mundus, latin for the world itself
- paradox
- Most of existence happens here, not in highlights
- psychology
- Brain filters routine to save energy, not out of boredom
- secret
- Where habits form, which quietly build the dramatic stuff