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jejuneness|dʒiːˈdʒuːnnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being jejune.
1. Deficiency of (physical) substance; thinness, meagreness, attenuation.
1626Bacon Sylva §799 The Ieiunenesse or extreme Comminution of Spirits. 1703Art Vintners & Wine-Coopers 5 The grand and proxim Cause seems to be their Jejuneness and poverty of Spirits.
2. Emptiness of interest or intellectually satisfying quality; baldness, meagreness, poverty.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. viii. i. §41 Many much admiring the jejunenesse of his discourse. 1796Burke Let. to Noble Lord Wks. VIII. 48 The jejuneness and penury of our municipal law. 1886Stubbs Lect. Hist. xv. 339 The pages of the annalist, where there are any, are so dull that we scarcely complain of their jejuneness. |