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Definition of mediocrity : 1. Moderation; temperance.
2. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

Synonyms:

cipher, averageness, Dick, citizen, commoner, nobody, second-rater, normality, upstart

mean, ordinariness, average, usual, normalcy, commonness, banality, standard, modesty, routine

half-and-half, marrow, medium, center, hub, pivot, midpoint, core, bisection, median, nucleus, epicenter, halfway point, axis, half, midst, middle, nub, kernel, heart

Usage examples:

• Should the reader be content with mediocrity, there is scarcely anything to be said where the conditions are so favorable. - "Success With Small Fruits", E. P. Roe.
• " Her poems," he said, " were very tolerable, and not to be endured;" mediocrity was insufferable in poetry. - "Mr. Hogarth's Will", Catherine Helen Spence.
• It was a triumph of mediocrity, sweet to majorities, and destiny consented to this irony. - "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I", Various.