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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. the quality of being slow to understand;
[syn: dullness, obtuseness]

2. the quality of lacking interestingness;
- Example: "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"

3. a lack of visual brightness;
- Example: "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"

4. lack of sensibility;
- Example: "there was a dullness in his heart"
- Example: "without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it."

5. without sharpness or clearness of edge or point;
- Example: "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible"
[syn: dullness, bluntness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.]
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         And gentle dullness ever loves a joke.   --Pope.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dullness
    n 1: the quality of being slow to understand [syn: dullness,
         obtuseness]
    2: the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of
       a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
    3: a lack of visual brightness; "the brightness of the orange
       sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea" [ant:
       brightness]
    4: lack of sensibility; "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."
    5: without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; "the
       dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible" [syn:
       dullness, bluntness] [ant: asperity, keenness,
       sharpness]