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Noun: mediocrity  ,mee-dee'ó-kri-tee
  1. Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
    "Her mediocrity in the field held her back from advancement";
    - averageness
     
  2. 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