Uninterestingness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being uninteresting. uncountable

    "If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it."

  2. 2
    inability to capture or hold one's interest wordnet

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deadnessdrynessemptinessinanitypalenesspallor

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"If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the presence of 'despicable types' for the sake of political freedom, then so be it."

Etymology

From uninteresting + -ness.

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