NOUN | cognition | staleness, triteness | unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed |
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attribute | staleness | having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging |
Meaning | unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed. | |
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Synonym | triteness | |
Narrower | camp | Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality |
Broader | unoriginality | uncreativeness due to a lack of originality |
Adjectives | stale | lacking originality or spontaneity |
Meaning | Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging. | |
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Attributes | stale | Lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age |
Narrower | mustiness, must, moldiness | The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy |
Broader | oldness | The opposite of youngness |
Opposite | freshness | The property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made) |
Spanish | trivialidad | |
Catalan | trivialitat | |
Adjectives | stale | lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age |
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