Crossword clues for insipidity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insipidity \In`si*pid"i*ty\, Insipidness \In*sip"id*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being insipid; vapidity. ``Dryden's
lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's.''
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from insipid + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being insipid; insipidness. 2 (context countable English) An insipid utterance.
WordNet
n. lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property [syn: blandness, insipidness]
Usage examples of "insipidity".
After the insipidities of Bath, his caustic tongue would come as a relief.
Her insipidity was invariable, for even her spirits were always the same.
The insipidity of the meeting was exactly such as Elinor had expected.
It was strange how the dullest party could be enjoyed because there was one person present whose eyes could be met for the fraction of a second, in wordless appreciation of a joke unshared by others: almost as strange as the insipidity of parties at which that person was not present.
The Taverners, with Miss Fairford and Lord Alvanley, were engaged to remain at Worth over the week-end, but although an Assembly at a neighbouring town, where some militia were quartered, a day’s hunting, and a card-party were promised, there was an insipidity, a flatness, that was hard to shake off.
After the insipidity of young George Mayhew, Mr Jonathan was like a glass of his own vintage port.