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The texture of most of life, which is exactly why it ambushes you with meaning.
means The quality of being usual, unremarkable, and typical — the ordinary-ness of things that happen every day without fuss.
from Built from 'ordinary,' which comes from Latin ordinarius, meaning 'orderly, regular, following the customary order' — itself from ordo, 'row, rank, sequence.' So the word's deep root is about things taking their proper place in a series, nothing out of line. The abstract noun suffix '-ness' was bolted on later to turn the adjective into the quality itself — the state of being unremarkably in order.
- heidegger called it
- das Man, the anonymous comfort of doing what one does
- brain's bias
- attention is tuned to novelty, so ordinary vanishes unnoticed
- writers' trick
- defamiliarize it and ordinariness becomes the whole plot
- statistical truth
- nearly every day of your life will be one of these