Antonyms for stodginess
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : stoj-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɒdʒ i |
Definition of stodginess
Origin :- 1823, "of a thick, semi-solid consistency," from stodge "to stuff" (1670s), of unknown origin, perhaps somehow imitative. Meaning "dull, heavy" developed by 1874 from noun sense of stodge applied to food (1825).
- noun dullness
- There is none of the usual 'stodginess' of history in his chapters.
- Extract from : « Fifty Years of Golf » by Horace G. Hutchinson
- In literature we have stodginess in style and decadence in morals, and vers libre, that is to say, no verse at all.
- Extract from : « Your Negro Neighbor » by Benjamin Brawley
- His theatre is beginning to pander to foreign tastes, to be ashamed of itself, to take on respectability and stodginess.
- Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos
Synonyms for stodginess
- aridity
- asepticism
- blandness
- boredom
- colorlessness
- commonplaceness
- drabness
- dreariness
- dryness
- familiarity
- flatness
- flavorlessness
- insipidity
- insipidness
- jejuneness
- lifelessness
- monotomy
- routine
- sameness
- slowness
- staleness
- sterileness
- sterility
- tediousness
- tedium
- uninterestingness
- vapidity
- vapidness
- weariness
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