The quality of being irksome, tedious, annoying, or distasteful; tediousness; formerly, also, disagreeableness, painfulness, revolting quality.

The quality or fact of causing weariness; tendency to weary. Tediousness.

figurative. Want of substance of solidity; the quality of being void of interest; inability to satisfy desire; unsatisfactoriness; vanity; hollowness.

= tediouste n.

figurative. Absence of embellishment, plainness, baldness; lack of interest, dullness.

Of an author, literary style, conversation, etc.: Want of animation, brilliancy, or pointedness; prosaic dulness.

The state or quality of being tedious; wearisomeness, tediousness, ennui.

The quality of being tiresome; wearisomeness, tediousness.

figurative. Dryness, lack of interest; ‘in the theological sense a kind of insensibility in devotion, contrary to unction or tenderness’ (Johnson).

With reference to an abstract or immaterial thing: lack of activity or interest; slowness, slackness, dullness; stagnation.

Irksomeness; uninteresting character or quality.

Clumsiness, unwieldiness; slowness, laboriousness. Now esp. of speech or writing: dullness, pomposity.

colloquial. Dullness, tediousness; unfashionableness. Cf. slow, adj. 8. Obsolete.

Dullness; uneventfulness; (also) absence of hope, pleasure, or excitement.

The quality or state of being ‘fade’; want of vivacity, dullness.

wooden quality or style.

dullness, dreariness.

The quality of being boring or annoying.

In extended use: dullness, monotony.