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dullness

n.

Quality of being boring
flatness, sameness, routine, uninterestingness, aridity, dryness, depression, dimness, drabness, tediousness, commonplaceness, mediocrity, tedium, monotony, deadliness, dreariness, insipidity, vapidity, staleness, lifelessness, tameness, familiarity; see also boredom, monotony, slowness 1.
Antonyms action*, liveliness, interest.
Stupidity
stupidness, insensibility, slow-wittedness; see stupidity 1.

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Another word for dullness

also dulness noun

A deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity:
hebetude, languidness, languor, lassitude, leadenness, lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, stupor, torpidity, torpor. See action
A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest:
asepticism, blandness, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, sterileness, sterility, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness, weariness. See excite

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During the winter months, people suffer from a variety of skin problems, including not only dry skin, but also itchiness, flakiness, dullness, chapping, and more.
When you are deficient in vitamins and minerals, it can manifest in your hair as dullness, weakness, slow growth, breakage, thinning and even pattern baldness.
Warming up properly is important, so having a few good warm up exercises to choose from can help keep dullness -- and the temptation to skimp -- at bay.
Its almost complete absence in some of these works makes for monotony and produces a sense of dullness, which may not be inherent in all the details of the music, but is none the less distinctly present.
These exhortations are directed chiefly against the dullness of spirit which hinders progressive moral insight into the genius of the New Covenant (v.

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