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Dullness vs Indifference - What's the difference?

dullness | indifference | Related terms |

Dullness is a related term of indifference.


As nouns the difference between dullness and indifference

is that dullness is the quality of being slow to understand things while indifference is indifference, uncaringness.

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.

    • indifference

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being indifferent.
  • Unbiased impartiality.
  • Unemotional apathy.
  • * His daughter's indifference towards the sexist group made him wonder if she was even human.
  • A lack of enthusiasm.
  • Unconcerned nonchalance.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
    • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}