Noun: mediocrity ,mee-dee'ó-kri-tee
- Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
"Her mediocrity in the field held her back from advancement";
- averageness
- A person of second-rate ability or value
"shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him";
- second-rater [informal]
Derived forms: mediocrities
Type of: actor, doer, mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness, worker
Encyclopedia: Mediocrity