mediocrity

Other forms of mediocrity

plural

mediocrities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mediocrity

What does mediocrity mean?

mediocrity means "ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mediocrity?

mediocrity has 5 syllables: me-di-o-cri-ty. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌmidiˈɑkɹəti/.

What is another word for mediocrity?

Close synonyms include averageness, second-rater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mediocrity a common word?

mediocrity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.