mediocrity
- 01 C2 Proficiency
a person who does not have much talent or who has not achieved anything special.
a person of mediocre abilities, achievements, or social standing.
Simple“He was a mediocrity who only got the job because of his father.”
In context“History has largely forgotten the various mediocrities who occupied the office during that period of political stagnation.”
- 02 C2 Proficiency
a middle state between two extremes.
the quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a middle state or mean.
Simple“He sought a life of happy mediocrity, avoiding both great wealth and poverty.”
In context“The philosopher praised the golden mediocrity of a life lived far from the volatile passions of the court.”
From Middle French médiocrité, from Latin mediocritās, from mediocris; by surface analysis, mediocre + -ity.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.