dullness

• dulness

From dull +‎ -ness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌl.nəs/

dullness (usually uncountable, plural dullnesses)

1. The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity.
2. The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome.
3. Lack of interest or excitement.
4. The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.

   • dullness of autumn

5. (of an edge) bluntness.
6. The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.

   • dullness of sight, or of hearing

7. (archaic) Drowsiness.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii:

     Prospero: […] Thou art inclin'd to sleep. 'Tis a good dulness, / And give it way— I know thou canst not choose.