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Webster 1913 Edition
Insipidness
{
Inˊsi-pid′i-ty
,In-sip′id-ness
, }Noun.
[Cf. F.
insipidité
.] The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity.
“Dryden’s lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's.” Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Insipidness
INSIP'IDNESS
, n.1.
Want of taste, or the power of exciting sensation in the tongue.2.
Want of life or spirit. Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's.
Definition 2024
insipidness
insipidness
English
Noun
insipidness (uncountable)
- A lack of distinctive, appealing, or energetic character; tastelessness; extreme blandness.
- 1948, William S. Lieberman, "Modern French Tapestries," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 142:
- As Jean Lurcat said, "The art had died, killed by consumption, insipidness, lymphatism, and inversion."
- 1977, K. C. Bennett, "Practical Criticism Revisited,' College English, vol. 38, no. 6, p. 575:
- This poem suffers from structural weakness, indeed insipidness.
- 1983, Kiyoshi Takeyama, "Tadao Andô: Heir to a Tradition," Perspecta, vol. 20, p. 180:
- His void spaces are a criticism of the insipidness of the overly materialistic modern way of life.
- 1948, William S. Lieberman, "Modern French Tapestries," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 142: