insipidityn.
/ɪnsɪˈpɪdɪti/ 1. The quality of being insipid.† c. Want of taste or judgement; weakness, folly Obsolete.
a. Tastelessness.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [noun]
wearishnessa1398
unsavouriness1422
tastelessness1600
flashinessa1603
wallowishness1603
insipidity1611
insipidnessa1631
deadness1707
flatness1707
mawkishness1727
walshness1808
ditchwateriness1840
savourlessness1841
blandness1846
silence1879
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Insipidité, insipiditie, wallowishnesse, vnsauourinesse.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Insipidity, a being insipid, unsavoury.
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen p. liv Water being signatur'd by its greatest Fluidity and Insipidity.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. 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.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > blandness or insipidity
flashinessa1603
frigidity1642
insipidness1711
insipidity1715
vapidity1721
vapidness1727
corporateness1755
vapidism1831
milk-and-wateriness1834
saltlessness1867
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > weak writing or discourse
wash1548
insipidness1711
writation1757
milk-and-water1792
wish-wash1842
slush1869
hogwash1870
insipidity1875
slosh1894
1715 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Wks. 247 The Reason of the Heaviness and Insipidity of my Behaviour.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. xi. 127 Her insipidity was invariable, for even her spirits were always the same. View more context for this quotation
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 113 The..insipidity of words worn out by the use of persons who have put neither knowledge nor feeling into them.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > simplicity, simple-mindedness > [noun]
simplenessa1382
innocencec1385
simplessec1391
simplicityc1450
innocencya1513
simplehead1543
greenness1548
insipidity1603
seeliness1642
niaiserie1657
silliness1736
simpletonism1825
simple-mindedness1827
simpletonianism1848
noodleness1931
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. ii. 201 To teach him his mortalitie and our insipiditie.
1732 C. Wogan Let. to Swift 27 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1803) XVIII. 186 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 plural. An example of insipidity; an insipid person, remark, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun]
mis-feelinga1382
noddyship?1589
shallow-pate1600
wattle-head1613
insensiblea1618
non-intelligent1628
underhead1643
no conjurer1668
insipid1699
shallow-brains1707
sillytonian1707
inane1710
coof1724
incapable1809
ganache1814
insipidity1822
wanwit1837
opacity1844
stupiditarian1850
scant-brain1864
insensate1877
slowie1901
no-brow1926
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull thing or activity
weariness1560
insipid1699
prose1743
bore1778
insipidity1822
ennui1849
yawn1889
palaver1920
bind1930
binder1930
corn1936
yawner1942
ho-hum1963
vicarage tea party1973
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person
grub1653
noddeea1680
insipid1699
rocker1762
bore1812
Dryasdust1819
insipidity1822
prose1844
bagpipe1850
vampire1862
pill1865
jeff1870
terebrant1890
poop1893
stodger1905
club bore1910
nudnik1916
stodge1922
dreary1925
dreep1927
binder1930
drip1932
douchebag1946
drear1958
drag1959
noodge1968
anorak1984
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > action, behaviour > instance of
unwitc1175
foliota1250
follyc1300
unwisdom1303
foolishness?1506
fooling?1545
foppery1546
foolery1562
filly-folly1565
impertinency1588
impertinence1603
silliness1624
idiotism1647
noddary1647
fondness1653
ineptitude1656
sottise1673
insipidity1822
bêtise1827
foolishment1871
jackassery1873
funny business1882
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > a vapid remark
insipidity1822
vapidity1848
1822 T. Carlyle Lett. The ‘mob of gentlemen’ talking insipidities and giving dinners.
1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 214 Various other men..some other half-dozen insipidities.
1884 Christian Commonw. 12 June 833/1 The utterance of a slight insipidity.
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