blandness

noun

Definition of blandnessnext
as in dullness

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  1. monotony
  2. weakness
  3. sameness
Noun
  • Switching up the incline between 0 and 1 percent every half-mile, or throwing in a few quick one-minute faster surges every once in a while can help break up the monotony without amping up the intensity too much.
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But the trees were a break from the monotony of churches, gas stations, and cornfields that populated the edge of our Iowa hometown.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of monotony
Noun
  • But Price acknowledged that the case revealed multiple weaknesses in how police handled homicide investigations at the time, leading to widespread reforms that remain in place today.
    Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • But dunking has become another item on a laundry list of weaknesses for Williams to fix.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of weakness
Noun
  • But, as a result, it’s made banking impersonal and created a sea of sameness as banks become less differentiated and lose the human connection fostered at the branch level.
    Michael Abbott, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Individual, exemplary persons with their unique locales (whether Paris, France, or Winesburg, Ohio) have melted into a worldwide sameness of preferences, worries, desires, satisfied by the same brands, through the same internet influences.
    Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
Definition of sameness
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