quotidian Definition
quo·tid·ian (kwō tid′ē ən)
adjective
- daily; recurring every day
- everyday; usual or ordinary
Etymology: ME cotidian < OFr < L quotidianus < quotidie, daily < quot, as many as (for IE base see quote) + dies, day
noun
anything, esp. a fever, that recurs daily
quotidian Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- life: The rules of quotidian face-to-face life are suspended or even inverted in a carnivalesque of norms.
- reality: There seems an almost religious awe in the face of quotidian reality.
- world: Any attempt at an authentic translation of an Euripidean vision is consistently obscured by the quotidian world of Irish sexual politics.
- experience: Indeed, the hurrying first movement, ' Moving On ' , seems to sum up the quality of most people's quotidian experience!
- event: But it is the description of quotidian events that sheds light on how the people lived.
Modifying Another Word
fairly: Irrespective of the intentionality of such a happening, the fact is such occurrences certainly do take place and on a fairly quotidian basis.

