insipidity
Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin īnsipiditās.

Noun

insipidity

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being insipid; insipidness.
    • 1735, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book I, Notes Variorum, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 2, London: Lawton Gilliver, p. 98,
      Nahum Tate was Poet Laureate, a cold writer, of no invention, but sometimes translated tolerably when befriended by Mr. Dryden. In his second part of Absalom and Achitophel are above two hundred admirable lines together of that great hand, which strongly shine through the insipidity of the rest.
    • 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 34, in Sense and Sensibility:
      Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity, by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature.
  2. (countable) Something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.
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