Jejuneness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state or condition of being jejune. uncountable
"I do not suffer any more from brain fag. If I feel symptoms of a return of mental vacuity, I take of the hypophosphites and the intellectual jejuneness is immediately suppressed. My only objection to it is, that it creates in me an inordinate, and unseemly rambunctiousness. For a three scorer, who is now little more than a parchmental reminiscence, this is unbefitting."
- 2 quality of inadequate nutritive value wordnet
- 3 the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated wordnet
- 4 lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life wordnet
Example
More examples"I do not suffer any more from brain fag. If I feel symptoms of a return of mental vacuity, I take of the hypophosphites and the intellectual jejuneness is immediately suppressed. My only objection to it is, that it creates in me an inordinate, and unseemly rambunctiousness. For a three scorer, who is now little more than a parchmental reminiscence, this is unbefitting."
Etymology
From jejune + -ness.
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