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BORINGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boringness mean?
• BORINGNESS (noun)
The noun BORINGNESS has 1 sense:
1. extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest
Familiarity information: BORINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
boringness; dreariness; insipidity; insipidness
Hypernyms ("boringness" is a kind of...):
dullness (the quality of lacking interestingness)
Derivation:
boring (so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness)
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