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Antonyms for staleness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : steyl |
Phonetic Transcription : steɪl |
Definition of staleness
Origin :- c.1300, "freed from dregs or lees" (of ale, wine, etc.), i.e. "having stood long enough to clear," cognate with Middle Dutch stel "stale" (of beer), and probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic base *sta- "stand," the source of Old English standan "to stand," Perhaps via Old French estaler "halt," from Frankish *stal- "position" (see stall (n.1)). The meaning "not fresh" is first recorded late 15c. Figurative sense (of immaterial things) is recorded from 1560s. Related: Staleness.
- As in dullness : noun quality of being boring
- As in innocuousness : noun insipidity
- As in insipidity : noun dullness
- As in insipidness : noun insipidity
- As in jejuneness : noun dullness
- As in lifelessness : noun dullness
- As in sterileness : noun dullness
- As in stodginess : noun dullness
- As in vapidity : noun dullness
- As in vapidity : noun insipidity
- As in vapidness : noun dullness
- As in vapidness : noun insipidity
- As in washiness : noun insipidity
- As in wateriness : noun insipidity
- The oddest mixture of staleness and of freshness is to be found there.
- Extract from : « My Contemporaries In Fiction » by David Christie Murray
- Kwel smell of staleness, of sourness, above all of coldness!
- Extract from : « The Day of the Boomer Dukes » by Frederik Pohl
- The post-office was thick with staleness that held its own, though chilled.
- Extract from : « Child and Country » by Will Levington Comfort
- He, too, who had admonished her rather sneeringly for staleness in her information.
- Extract from : « Diana of the Crossways, Complete » by George Meredith
- Was Government admitting there was nothing but staleness in the present?
- Extract from : « DP » by Arthur Dekker Savage
- A demonstration of the staleness of our bread and the absence of potatoes in the soup.
- Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
- Soon afterwards it was obvious that the cause of the whole thing was staleness.
- Extract from : « The Happy Golfer » by Henry Leach
- Now here are the common symptoms and the results of staleness.
- Extract from : « The Happy Golfer » by Henry Leach
- We have seen the advice given to play through a period of staleness.
- Extract from : « The Happy Golfer » by Henry Leach
- But Watson cared not for its staleness if it might promote the game.
- Extract from : « Gideon's Band » by George W. Cable
Synonyms for staleness
- aridity
- asepticism
- blandness
- boredom
- colorlessness
- commonplaceness
- drabness
- dreariness
- dryness
- dullness
- familiarity
- flatness
- flavorlessness
- gentility
- innocuousness
- insipidity
- insipidness
- jejuneness
- lifelessness
- mildness
- monotomy
- routine
- sameness
- slowness
- staleness
- sterileness
- sterility
- stodginess
- tediousness
- tedium
- uninterestingness
- vapidity
- vapidness
- washiness
- wateriness
- weariness
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