insipidness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A lack of distinctive, appealing, or energetic character; tastelessness; extreme blandness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As Jean Lurcat said, "The art had died, killed by consumption, insipidness, lymphatism, and inversion.""
- "This poem suffers from structural weakness, indeed insipidness."
- "His void spaces are a criticism of the insipidness of the overly materialistic modern way of life."
Etymology
Etymology tree French insipidebor. English insipid Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English insipidness From insipid + -ness.