UNINTERESTINGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uninterestingness mean? 

• UNINTERESTINGNESS (noun)
  The noun UNINTERESTINGNESS has 1 sense:

1. inability to capture or hold one's interest

  Familiarity information: UNINTERESTINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINTERESTINGNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inability to capture or hold one's interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

impotence; impotency; powerlessness (the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uninterestingness"):

dullness (the quality of lacking interestingness)

heaviness; ponderousness (an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency)

Antonym:

interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

Derivation:

uninteresting (characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative)

uninteresting (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement)