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dullness

noun
/ˈdʌl.nəs/

Etymology

From dull + -ness.

  1. inherited from *dʰwel-✻
  2. inherited from *dulaz✻
  3. inherited from *dol✻
  4. inherited from dol — “dull, foolish, erring, heretical; foolish, silly; presumptuous”
  5. inherited from dull
  6. formed as dullness — “dull + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being slow of understanding things.

  2. The quality of being uninteresting

    The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.

    • If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or Humour, Heaven grant me a double Portion of Dullness—

  3. Lack of interest or excitement.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The lack of visual brilliance

      The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.

      • dullness of autumn

    2. bluntness.

    3. The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.

      • dullness of sight, or of hearing

    4. Drowsiness.

      • Prospero: […]Thou art inclin'd to sleep. 'Tis a good dulness, / And give it way— I know thou canst not choose.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dullness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at dullness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at dullness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA