blandness

English

Etymology

From bland +‎ -ness.

Noun

blandness (countable and uncountable, plural blandnesses)

1. The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
   1. (obsolete) Mildness, gentleness.
      • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

        These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.

   2. Lack of taste or flavor.

      Synonym: flavorlessness

   3. Lack of interest or appeal.

      Synonyms: dullness, insipidness

      • 2011 April 14, Michael Schuman, “Do the BRICS believe in free markets?”, in Time‎:

        But generally, these summits have been real snoozers, producing statements of such vague blandness that they make G-20 resolutions read like Harry Potter page-turners.

Translations

lack of taste or flavor

Catalan: insipidesa f, insipiditat f Finnish: mauttomuus (fi) French: insipidité f Galician: insipidez f Italian: insipidezza f Ottoman Turkish: طاتسزلق (tatsızlık), لذتسزلك (lezzetsizlik), یاوانلق (yavanlık) Portuguese: insipidez f Spanish: insipidez (es) f, sinsabor m

lack of interest or appeal

Finnish: latteus (fi) French: insipidité f Galician: insipidez f Italian: insipidezza f Polish: nijakość (pl) f, bezbarwność (pl) f, bezpłciowość (pl) f Portuguese: insipidez f Spanish: insipidez (es) f