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Dullness

noun

(Written also dulness)

The quality of being slow to understand. Synonym: obtuseness.

The quality of lacking interestingness.

A lack of visual brightness. Antonym: brightness.

Lack of sensibility. "Without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it."

Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point. Synonym: bluntness. Antonym: sharpness.

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"Dullness" Quotes from Famous Books

... law are partly due to the system of courts and partly to the dullness of court procedure. The inefficiency of the system of courts and judicial procedure is shown in the practical workings of the civil courts of New York City. The antiquated organization of all the courts is like a patchwork quilt ...

— The Man in Court • Frederic DeWitt Wells

... this is not Fortune's work neither, but Nature's, who perceiveth our natural wits too dull to reason of such goddesses, and hath sent this natural for our whetstone: for always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.— How now, wit? ...

— As You Like It • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... and from outhouses, which to their smell are more fragrant than thyme. The approach and touch of these close up the interiors of their mind, and open the exteriors pertaining to the body, from which come their quickness in worldly things and their dullness in ...

— Spiritual Life and the Word of God • Emanuel Swedenborg

... Were I to aid your plans with a single penny in the hope of withdrawing one inhabitant of Glaston from the preaching of Mr. Wingfold, a man who speaks the truth and fears nobody, as I, alas! have feared you, because of your dullness of heart and slowness of understanding, I should be doing the body of Christ a grievous wrong. I have been as one beating the air in talking to you against episcopacy when I ought to have been preaching against dishonesty; ...

— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald

... preceding symptom will generally be found, instead of that natural brilliance of expression in the eyes and countenance, an unnatural dullness and vacantness altogether foreign to childhood. This is ...

— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

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