Mediocrity

[Me`di*oc·ri*ty]

Moderation; temperance.

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The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

Noun
ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

Noun
a person of second-rate ability or value; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him"


n.
The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

n.
Moderation; temperance.


Mediocrity

Me`di*oc"ri*ty , n. [F. m'82diocrit'82, L. mediocritas.] 1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." Bacon. 2. Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] Hooker.

The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

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Usage Examples

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

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Other Usage Examples

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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