(v. i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
(v. i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
(v. i.) Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
Example Sentences:
Sameness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.
(n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except for the blue guard towers it is drained of colour, a grey sameness coating gravel, fences and buildings.
(2) Specific findings included the retrieval of sameness, fronting (or place), and voicing.
(3) These disturbances of development range from excessive temper tantrums, with defiant and oppositional behavior, to mannerisms, the insistence on sameness and frank autistic symptoms.
(4) Societies move forward not through sameness and repetition, but thanks to differences of opinion and intellectual diversity.
(5) He recalls: “Some weeks ago, I was listening to the debate and I was listening to Liz, Yvette and Andy and I kind of reached for the nearest sharpest object so I could slit my wrists because of the blandness and sameness of what they were saying.” There has also been an organised side to the campaign masterminded by the level-headed Simon Fletcher, chief of staff to Ken Livingstone as London mayor.
(6) Infantile sexuality, the pleasure of the total body, is equivalent to love and dependent upon sameness and continuity, tending toward fusion.
(7) It may be possible to teach reasoning strategies to subjects with poor reasoning, including many subjects with learning disabilities (LD), using curriculum designed around a sameness analysis.
(8) It was hypothesized that autistic children from high SES families would be associated with seven social class selection factors: (1) early age of onset, (2) early age of treatment admission, (3) normal cognitive potential, (4) complex rituals with maintenance of sameness, (5) long distance traveled for treatment, (6) limited availability of services, and (7) very detailed child history.
(9) That is, in at least some instances, one condition may have been mistaken for the other, and thus a factitious overlap or "sameness" misconstrued.
(10) Foster struggled to recover from that error and looked vulnerable on a couple of occasions in the second half, when he made unconvincing saves to deny Samed Yesil and the enterprising Daniel Pacheco, who also hit the bar with a delightful curling shot.
(11) When a white person says they don’t see race, that’s racist: sameness is an erasure when stark numbers – like the disproportionate police killings of black people – show that we don’t all exist in the world with equal safeguards and privileges.
(12) I never understood, until things changed, that “home” was something my parents actively built around me, all the time – a construction, a collection of comforting samenesses, a privilege.
(13) Neither biotyping nor antimicrobial susceptibility were successful in identifying sameness among the group isolates nor differences among other isolates.
(14) It was observed that contrary to the previously held assumption of "neuromuscular sameness," schizophrenics displayed a qualitatively different pattern of muscle activity in their motor responding.
(15) Sameness analysis is used to indicate the theoretical potential of each approach for helping students with learning disabilities to achieve generalization in their spelling.
(16) Normcore moves away from a coolness that relies on difference to a post-authenticity that opts into sameness.” It sounds like a joke but, says Sanderson, it might actually might be a thing: “It’s the opposite of what people think is hip now, but it’s also very masculine – which ties in to the return to blokeiness.” But for many, including Josh, the desire to categorise people is infuriating.
(17) These include onset of the disorder in the early preschool years, severe and pervasive deficits in social behavior and attachments, deficits in speech and language, insistence for the preservation of sameness, unusual responsiveness to the sensory environment, self-stimulation, self-injurious behavior, isolated skill areas, and inappropriate affect.
(18) Central to these models is a stimulus comparison process that derives relative judgments of sameness and difference from tests of the congruence of stimulus representations.
(19) Combined with frantic attempts at individuality is a profound sameness.
(20) It is argued that insistence on sameness, avoidance of social stimuli and self-injurious stereotypies of autistic children are neurotic reactions based on their insufficient object relations.