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Answer for the clue "Dullness owing to length or slowness ", 11 letters:
tediousness

Word definitions for tediousness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being tedious; wearisomeness; prolixity; tiresomeness; slowness; tedium.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. dullness owing to length or slowness [syn: tedium , tiresomeness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tedious \Te"di*ous\, a. [L. taediosus, fr. taedium. See Tedium .] Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly , adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness , n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. --Shak. I ...

Usage examples of tediousness.

As I cannot, like Dogberry, find it in my heart to bestow all my tediousness upon the reader, I will not go on to bore him with a minute detail of all the discoveries and proceedings of this and the following day.

A composite feeling, made up of disgust with the, to him, humdrum tediousness of a farmer’s life, gloomy images of her who lay in the churchyard, remorse, and a general averseness to his wife’s society, impelled him to seek a home in any place on earth save Weatherbury.

At this time it was instituted that, after the manner of the Eastern Church, hymns and psalms should be sung, lest the people should pine away in the tediousness of sorrow.