mediocrity

About 0.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.

   Flexibility is good, but a tolerance for mediocrity carried far enough impairs operational capacity.

2. noun A person with mediocre abilities or achievements.

   populated with mediocrities

3. noun The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.
4. noun A middle course of action; moderation, balance.

Similar words

averageness second-rater inadequacy dung middleness middlingness mediocreness middle-of-the-roadness submediocrity moderacy

Often followed by

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Word family

mediocrities