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Noun: mediocrity  ,mee-dee'ó-kri-tee
  1. Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
    - averageness
     
  2. A person of second-rate ability or value
    "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him";
    - second-rater

Derived forms: mediocrities

Type of: individual, mortal, mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness, person, somebody, someone, soul

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