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Dullness vs Fullness - What's the difference?

dullness | fullness |

As nouns the difference between dullness and fullness

is that dullness is the quality of being slow to understand things while fullness is being full; completeness.

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.

    • fullness

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fulness

    Noun

    (-)
  • Being full; completeness.
  • The degree to which a space is full.
  • (fig. ) The degree to which fate has become known.
  • (bodybuilding): A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected.

    • Derived terms

    * in the fullness of time