| NOUN | cognition | dullness, obtuseness | the quality of being slow to understand |
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| attribute | dullness | the quality of lacking interestingness | |
| attribute | dullness | a lack of visual brightness | |
| attribute | dullness | lack of sensibility | |
| attribute | dullness, bluntness | without sharpness or clearness of edge or point |
| Sounds | dah'lnahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | The quality of being slow to understand. | |
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| Synonym | obtuseness | |
| Narrower | oscitancy, oscitance | drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning |
| Broader | stupidity | A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience |
| Adjectives | dull | slow to learn or understand |
| Meaning | The quality of lacking interestingness. | |
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| Example | "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees" | |
| Attributes | dull | lacking in liveliness or animation |
| Narrower | boringness, dreariness, insipidness, insipidity | extreme / extreme dullness |
| jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness | The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | |
| tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness | dullness owing to length or slowness | |
| Broader | uninterestingness | inability to capture or hold one's interest |
| Spanish | inactividad, paro, quietud | |
| Catalan | atur, inactivitat, quietud | |
| Adjectives | dull | lacking in liveliness or animation |
| dull | so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | |
| Meaning | A lack of visual brightness. | |
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| Example | "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea" | |
| Narrower | dimness, subduedness | The property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity |
| flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte | The property of having little or no contrast | |
| Broader | visual property | An attribute of vision |
| Opposite | brightness | The location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white |
| Adjectives | dull | emitting or reflecting very little light |
| dull | darkened with overcast | |
| dull | (of color) very low in saturation | |
| Meaning | lack of sensibility. | |
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| Broader | unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility | Devoid of passion or feeling |
| Adjectives | dull | not keenly felt |
| dull | blunted in responsiveness or sensibility | |
| Meaning | Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point. | |
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| Example | "the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible" | |
| Synonym | bluntness | |
| Narrower | obtuseness | The quality of lacking a sharp / sharp edge or point |
| Broader | shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation | Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) |
| Opposite | asperity, sharpness | harshness of manner |
| sharpness, keenness | thinness of edge or fineness of point | |
| Spanish | poco filoso, torpeza | |
| Adjectives | dull | not having a sharp edge or point |
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