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Dullness vs Dejection - What's the difference?

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Dullness is a related term of dejection.


As nouns the difference between dullness and dejection

is that dullness is the quality of being slow to understand things while dejection is dejection, defecation.

dullness

English

Alternative forms

* dulness

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality of being slow to understand things.
  • The quality of being uninteresting.
  • The lack of visual brilliance.
  • (of an edge) bluntness.
  • dejection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
  • The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
  • Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.
  • A low condition; weakness; inability.
  • A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
  • (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1855 , year_published= , publisher=Linday & Blakiston , author=Austin Flint , title=Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases , section=First Clinical Report on Continued Fever, Based on an Analysis of Forty-Two Cases citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=u_wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=dejection , page=39 , passage=No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1861 , year_published=2010 , publisher=Applewood Books , author=James Jackson , title=Another Letter to a Young Physician , section=Note I. John Lowell citation , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1921 , year_published=2000 , publisher=B. Jain Publishers , edition=2nd edition , author=Charles Signmund Raue , title=Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment , section=Chapter IX Diseases of the Intestines citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}

    Synonyms

    * (defecation or feces) excrement, bowel movement