dullness

About 0.72 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The quality of being slow of understanding things.
2. noun The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
3. noun Lack of interest or excitement.
4. noun The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.

   dullness of autumn

5. noun bluntness.
6. noun The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.

   dullness of sight, or of hearing

7. noun Drowsiness.

Similar words

obtuseness bluntness dullwittedness dumbness dullardness dumbdom stupidness dumbhood slowness stupidity

Often followed by

of and in is to or on that which

Word family

dull duller dullest dullnesses dully dulness dulnesses