Meaning of 'dullness'

noun

without sharpness or clearness of edge or point

Example: "The dullness of the pencil made their writing illegible."

Synonyms: bluntness

noun

lack of sensibility

Example: "There was a dullness in my heart."

noun

a lack of visual brightness

Example: "the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea"

noun

the quality of lacking interestingness

Example: "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"

noun

the quality of being slow to understand

Synonyms: obtuseness