dullness.
The quality of being slow of understanding things.
Meaning & usage
The quality of being slow of understanding things.
The quality of being uninteresting; boring; humorless or irksome.
Lack of interest or excitement.
The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.
dullness of autumn
bluntness.
The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.
dullness of sight, or of hearing
Drowsiness.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English dull Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English dullness From dull + -ness.
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