prosiness
- n commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting
- His creased face, with its oddly forced smile, cannot displace the memory of Kennedy's youthful radiance, and his unctuous prosiness cannot match Kennedy's eloquence.
- Wordsworth was condemned for his prosiness, Whitman for his barbaric yawp, Browning for his obscurity.
- Too prosy for some tastes, he insists that poems must incorporate the prosiness of life; poetry must be as important as prose.