English Dictionary

insipidity

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) The condition of being insipid; insipidness. / (countable) Something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.

日本語の意味

味気なさ、風味のなさ、物事の退屈さや無味乾燥な状態。 / （形容詞としての「insipid」に由来して）刺激や興味が湧かない、退屈な状態や物事

The novel's insipidity disappointed readers who had hoped for a gripping plot.

その小説の味気なさは、手に汗握るような筋書きを期待していた読者をがっかりさせた。

意味（1）

(uncountable) The condition of being insipid; insipidness.

Nahum Tate was Poet Laureate, a cold writer, of no invention, but sometimes translated tolerably when befriended by Mr. Dryden. In his second part of Absalom and Achitophel are above two hundred admirable lines together of that great hand, which strongly shine through the insipidity of the rest.

意味（2）

(countable) Something that is insipid; an insipid utterance, sight, object, etc.

The lovers of beauty, preferring what is dull to what is offensive, will rather doze over the inanities and insipidities of a drowsy dilettantism, than choose to be irritated into wakeful attention by ugly contours, disproportioned figures, and ill-assorted colours, drawn and arranged after the hard and ignorant manner of the early Christian painters, and imbued with the childish symbolism of the dismal Middle Ages.

insipidities （ plural ）