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Dullness vs Listlessness - What's the difference?

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Dullness is a related term of listlessness.


As nouns the difference between dullness and listlessness

is that dullness is the quality of being slow to understand things while listlessness is the state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.

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.

    • listlessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.}}