Dulness
Full definition of dulness
Noun
dulness
(usually uncountable; plural dulnesses)- Obsolete spelling of dullness
- 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 3, chapter XIII, DemocracyA smack of all Human Life lies in the Tailor: its wild struggles towards beauty, dignity, freedom, victory; and how, hemmed in by Sedan and Huddersfield, by Nescience, Dulness, Prurience, and other sad necessities and laws of Nature, it has attained just to this: Grey Savagery of Three Sacks with a hem!