Dullness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dullness \Dull"ness\, n.
     The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness;
     drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster;
     want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also
     {dulness}.]
     [1913 Webster]


  
           And gentle dullness ever loves a joke.   --Pope.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dullness
       n 1: the quality of being slow to understand [syn: {dulness}, {obtuseness}]
       2: the quality of lacking interestingness [syn: {dulness}]
       3: a lack of visual brightness [syn: {dulness}] [ant: {brightness}]
       4: without sharpness of edge or point [syn: {dulness}, {bluntness}]
          [ant: {asperity}, {sharpness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  347 Moby Thesaurus words for "dullness":
     abruptness, absence of color, acedia, achromaticity, achromatism,
     adynamia, aloofness, analgesia, anemia, anesthesia, angst, anguish,
     anxiety, apathy, aridity, aridness, ashiness, asininity, ataraxia,
     ataraxy, atony, autism, barrenness, benumbedness, blah,
     blah feeling, blahs, blockishness, bloodlessness, bluffness,
     bluntness, boobishness, boorishness, boredom, boringness, bovinity,
     cachexia, cachexy, cadaverousness, callousness, canescence,
     catatonia, cheerlessness, chill, chilliness, chloranemia,
     cloddishness, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, colorlessness,
     coma, comatoseness, commonness, commonplaceness, coolness,
     cowardice, crassness, crudeness, deadness, deadpan,
     dearth of ideas, deathly hue, deathly pallor, debilitation,
     debility, denseness, density, detachment, dim-wittedness, dimness,
     discomfort, discomposure, discontent, disinterest, dislike,
     dispassion, dispassionateness, displeasure, disquiet,
     dissatisfaction, doltishness, drabness, dread, drowsiness, dryness,
     dull-wittedness, dullardism, dumbness, duncery, easy temper,
     electronarcosis, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, emptiness,
     enervation, ennui, etiolation, even temper, existential woe,
     exsanguination, fadedness, faintness, fairishness, fairness,
     fatigue, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, flatness, frigidity,
     frostiness, ghastliness, glaucescence, glaucousness, good temper,
     gray, grayishness, grayness, grimness, grossness, haggardness,
     heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude, hopelessness, huelessness,
     humdrumminess, humdrumness, hypochromia, hypochromic anemia,
     iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity,
     imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience,
     imperturbability, imperturbableness, impotence, inanimation,
     inappetence, inconsiderateness, indifference, inexcitability,
     inexcitableness, infecundity, infertility, inirritability,
     inquietude, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness,
     insensitivity, insentience, insipidness, insouciance, irksomeness,
     jadedness, joylessness, lack of affect, lack of appetite,
     lack of bite, lack of feeling, lack of pleasure, lack of touch,
     lackadaisicalness, lackluster, languidness, languishment, languor,
     languorousness, lassitude, leadenness, lenitude, lentor,
     lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness, lightness, listlessness,
     lividity, lividness, long-windedness, loutishness, lumpishness,
     malaise, matter-of-factness, mediocreness, mediocrity,
     middlingness, moderateness, modestness, modesty, monotonousness,
     mousiness, muddiness, muffled tone, mutedness, narcosis,
     narcotization, nausea, neutral tint, ninnyism, nonchalance,
     nongratification, nonsatisfaction, numbness, oafdom, oafishness,
     objectivity, obtundity, obtuseness, opacity, oscitancy,
     painfulness, paleness, pallidity, pallidness, pallor, passableness,
     passionlessness, passiveness, passivity, pastiness, patience,
     phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, pins and needles,
     plainness, plucklessness, poker face, prison pallor, prolixity,
     prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, prostration,
     resignation, resignedness, respectability, sallowness, satedness,
     savorlessness, self-absorption, sickliness, sickly hue,
     silveriness, simpletonianism, slatiness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth,
     slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, smokiness,
     smooth temper, soberness, softness, somberness, somnolence, sopor,
     soporifousness, sottishness, soullessness, spiritlessness, spleen,
     spunklessness, staidness, staleness, steadiness, stoicism,
     stolidity, straight face, strengthlessness, stuffiness,
     stupefaction, stupidity, stupor, supineness, tastelessness,
     tediousness, tedium, thick skin, thick-headedness,
     thick-wittedness, tiresomeness, tolerableness, tonelessness,
     toothlessness, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor,
     uncomfortableness, unconcern, uncreativeness, unease, uneasiness,
     unembellishedness, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfancifulness,
     unfeeling, unfeelingness, unhappiness, unidealism,
     unimaginativeness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness,
     unirritableness, unnervousness, unoriginality, unpassionateness,
     unperceptiveness, unpleasure, unpoeticalness, unresponsiveness,
     unromanticism, unsatisfaction, unsharpness, unsusceptibility,
     unsympatheticness, unteachability, untouchability, vapidity,
     veiled voice, vexation of spirit, voce velata, wanness, weakliness,
     weakness, wearifulness, weariness, wearisomeness, withdrawal,
     withdrawnness, world-weariness, wrongheadedness, yokelism