STALENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does staleness mean? 

• STALENESS (noun)
  The noun STALENESS has 2 senses:

1. unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed

2. having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging

  Familiarity information: STALENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STALENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

staleness; triteness

Hypernyms ("staleness" is a kind of...):

unoriginality (uncreativeness due to a lack of originality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "staleness"):

camp (something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality)

Derivation:

stale (lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("staleness" is a kind of...):

oldness (the opposite of youngness)

Attribute:

stale (lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "staleness"):

moldiness; must; mustiness (the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy)

Antonym:

freshness (the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated)

Derivation:

stale (lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age)