dullness

American  

[duhl-nis] / ˈdʌl nɪs /

noun

1. the quality or condition of being dull; bluntness or lack of sharpness, as of a blade or point.

2. a boring or uninteresting quality.

3. a lack of energy or liveliness; sluggish quality.

4. the quality of lacking light, brightness, clarity, or color; dimness.

5. a lack of intelligence; slowness of mind or thinking; stupidity.

6. a lack of intensity, acuteness, or keenness, as of pain or perception.

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Example Sentences

But Parmet’s less interested in cultish dread than a more naturalistic dullness of isolation and groupthink you’d find in any closed conservative society where women of faith have been sold a purity narrative.

From Los Angeles Times

“It shows that, even among a group of very similar-looking species, you can find beauty among the dullness.”

From New York Times

He finds Pádraic dull and, in his advancing years, he figures he has no more time for dullness.

From Los Angeles Times

Discovering that “stuffiness is not dullness,” Mr. Kimbrough played Dial as a pretentious newsman with heart and sensitivity as well as a charmingly incisive sense of right and wrong.

From Washington Post

My instinct said to leave after the appetizer — I was raised in communist Bulgaria by atheists who taught me to associate religion with dullness of mind.

From Los Angeles Times