dullness, bluntness
(noun) without sharpness or clearness of edge or point; “the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible”
dullness
(noun) lack of sensibility; “there was a dullness in his heart”; “without him the dullness of her life crept into her work no matter how she tried to compartmentalize it.”
dullness
(noun) a lack of visual brightness; “the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea”
dullness
(noun) the quality of lacking interestingness; “the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees”
dullness, obtuseness
(noun) the quality of being slow to understand
Source: WordNet® 3.1
dullness (usually uncountable, plural dullnesses)
The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity.
The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome.
Lack of interest or excitement.
The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
(of an edge) bluntness.
The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
(archaic) Drowsiness.
Source: Wiktionary
Dull"ness, n.
Definition: The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. [Written also dulness.] And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 May 2025
(verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; “On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
