dullness, n.
(dullnesses)
(dullnesses)
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
<noun.attribute>
bluntness dullness
sample sentences
"the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
lack of sensibility
<noun.attribute>
dullness
sample sentences
"there was a dullness in his heart""without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it."
semantic pointers
hypernym
a lack of visual brightness
<noun.attribute>
dullness
sample sentences
"the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
the quality of lacking interestingness
<noun.attribute>
dullness
sample sentences
"the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
semantic pointers
attribute
hypernym
hyponym
the quality of being slow to understand
<noun.cognition>
dullness obtuseness
lexical pointers
derivationally related form