noun. The quality or condition of being the same.

noun. A lack of variety or change; monotony.

noun. The being the same; oneness; the negation of otherness; identity: as, the sameness of an unchangeable being.

noun. Essential resemblance; oneness of nature: as, a sameness of manner.

noun. Want of variety; tedious monotony: as, the sameness of objects in a landscape.

noun. Synonyms and Sameness, Identity. Sameness may be internal or external; identity is internal or essential: as, sameness of personal appearance; the identity of Saladin with Ilderim and Adonbec. One book may be the same as another, but cannot be identical with it. Saladin and Ilderim and Adonbec were the same man.

noun. The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity.

noun. Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.

noun. the quality of being the same; identity

noun. the state of being equivalent; equality

noun. a tiring lack of variety; monotony

noun. the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety

noun. the quality of being alike

"But there is a certain sameness, a certain smoothing out of variation, among Hollywood actors, and I don't see why we should settle for that in our inspiration to prose."