Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being bland; mildness; gentleness; soothingness.
Wiktionary
- n. The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state or quality of being bland.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
- n. the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern
- n. lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property
Etymologies
- bland + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is opposed to what it calls the blandness and crassness of the modern world.”
“A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure.”
“But she managed to school her expression for blandness, averting her eyes slightly to stare at a tapestry.”
“It’s this ‘parsnip policy’ that, arguably, imbues ELT books with a certain blandness – what Mario Rinvolucri once characterised as “the soft, fudgey, sub-journalistic, woman’s magaziney world of EFLese course materials” (1999, p. 14).”
“He has sought to turn his everyman image—some call it blandness—into a virtue, saying these are serious times.”
“They floated, and she began to suspect their blandness was a form of turtle happiness, or at least contentment, from the way they blinked their eyes in the sun, and continued to float.”
“His blandness is the product of a system in which decisions are made by consensus and officials who don't make mistakes are elevated over those who show initiative.”
“At times here the songs meander dangerously close to blandness, which is a tragedy considering what the band show themselves to be capable of elsewhere on the record.”
“It used to be a lot more open to originality, talent and competition, unil they deregulated the entrtainmnt companies and caused American culture o degenerate into severe blandness, that is not that diffrent tha Canadian's media culture - just a Hell of a ot more expensive.”
“I am not, of course, accusing Taco Bell of selling contaminated meat but merely pointing out that "blandness" is almost the least of your problems if you rely on feedlot animals or culled dairy cows for your beef.”
The Huffington Post: Andrew Gunther: Taco Bell's PR Is Way Outside the Bun!
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blandness’.
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Change one letter
Change one letter in the title of an existing book, and create an entirely new literary work. Add a one-sentence comment, describing the new work.
all the pretty ho..., the brothels kara..., caesar's garlic wars, the unbearable ti..., a heartbreaking w..., the good marrow, the right stiff, lady windermere's..., infinite pest, the cremains of t..., eyes on the pride, the spoils of boy... and 747 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
intend, evangelical, present, nattering space, inevitably, consequently, techniques, liqueur, purist, frankly, constraints, jot and 256 more...
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GRE Words
abacus, abate, abdicate, abdomen, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abide, abjure, abraded, abrasion, abrogate and 198 more...
Tweets
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trivet Heh-heh-heh. Apr 3, 2008
sionnach Jose Saramago's account of a city laid low by a mysterious epidemic which causes all of its victims to lose their ability to taste their food. Apr 3, 2008