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Staleness

Staleness \Stale"ness\, n. The quality or state of being stale.

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staleness

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or quality of being stale. 2 (context countable English) The result or product of being stale.

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staleness

  1. n. unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed [syn: triteness]

  2. having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging [ant: freshness]

Usage examples of "staleness".

Credential doctrines disaccorded with a pervasive staleness and spiritual claustrophobia.

The founts gushed harder as they descended—water pressure, Malenfant thought—and soon the spiral canals were filled with bubbling, frothing liquid, which took away some of the staleness of the still air of the well.