dullness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being slow to understand
    obtuseness.
  2. noun the quality of lacking interestingness
    • the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees
  3. noun a lack of visual brightness
    • the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea
  4. noun 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. noun without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
    bluntness.
    • the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible

WordNet

Dull"ness noun
Definitions
  1. The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. Written also dulness.
    And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.

Webster 1913