Mediocrity Synonyms, Mediocrity Antonyms

mediocrity mid-15c., from Fr. médiocrité, from L. mediocritatem (nom. mediocritas) "a middling condition," from mediocris (see mediocre). Neutral at first; disparaging sense began to predominate from late 16c. The noun meaning "person of mediocre abilities or attainments" is from 1690s. Before the tinge of disparagement crept in, another name for the Golden Mean was golden mediocrity.

Example Sentences for mediocrity

But Geoffrey was not a mediocrity, he was an exceedingly able and powerful man, and this fact the House quickly recognised.

You've got to drop down into mediocrity just when you are on the way up to something.

Being just the kind of joke that has the widest run over the low level of mediocrity, it filled the gallery and upper boxes.

As if twenty times already she had not sufficiently perceived his mediocrity.