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insipidity|ɪnsɪˈpɪdɪtɪ|
[f. prec. + -ity: cf. F. insipidité (1572 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The quality of being insipid.
a. Tastelessness.
1611Cotgr., Insipidité, insipiditie, wallowishnesse, vnsauourinesse. 1706Phillips, Insipidity, a being insipid, unsavoury. 1740Cheyne Regimen p. liv, Water being signatur'd by its greatest Fluidity and Insipidity. 1807T. Thomson Chem. II. 102 Water owes its agreeable taste to the presence of air; hence the insipidity of boiled water.
b. Want of life or spirit, lack of interest, dullness.
1715tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Wks. 247 The Reason of the Heaviness and Insipidity of my Behaviour. 1796Jane Austen Sense & Sens. xi. (1849) 43 Her insipidity was invariable, for even her spirits were always the same. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vii. 113 The..insipidity of words worn out by the use of persons who have put neither knowledge nor feeling into them.
†c. Want of taste or judgement; weakness, folly Obs.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. ii. (1632) 191 To teach him his mortalitie, and our insipiditie. 1732Swift Corr. Wks. 1841 II. 670 A lieutenant-general of the queen's army that had courage and insipidity enough to hear the poor doctor preach to the bare walls.
2. With an and pl. An example of insipidity; an insipid person, remark, etc.
1822Carlyle Lett., The ‘mob of gentlemen’ talking insipidities and giving dinners. 1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 214 Various other men..some other half-dozen insipidities. 1884Chr. Commw. 12 June 833/1 The utterance of a slight insipidity. |