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dullness

noun
  1. without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
    “The dullness of the pencil made their writing illegible.”
    bluntness
  2. lack of sensibility
    “There was a dullness in my heart.”
  3. a lack of visual brightness
    “the brightness of the orange sky was reflected in the dullness of the orange sea”
  4. the quality of lacking interestingness
    “the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees”
  5. the quality of being slow to understand
    obtuseness