JEJUNENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jejuneness mean? 

• JEJUNENESS (noun)
  The noun JEJUNENESS has 3 senses:

1. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

2. the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated

3. quality of inadequate nutritive value

  Familiarity information: JEJUNENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JEJUNENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

callowness; jejuneness; juvenility

Hypernyms ("jejuneness" is a kind of...):

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

Derivation:

jejune (displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

jejuneness; jejunity; tameness; vapidity; vapidness

Hypernyms ("jejuneness" is a kind of...):

dullness (the quality of lacking interestingness)

Derivation:

jejune (lacking interest or significance or impact)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Quality of inadequate nutritive value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

jejuneness; jejunity

Hypernyms ("jejuneness" is a kind of...):

inadequacy; inadequateness (unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate)

Derivation:

jejune (of insufficient quantity to meet a need)