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Dullness vs Tympany - What's the difference?

dullness | tympany |

As nouns the difference between dullness and tympany

is that dullness is the quality of being slow to understand things while tympany is the sound made by beating a drum.

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.

    • tympany

    English

    Noun

    (tympanies)
  • The sound made by beating a drum.
  • (medicine) (distention of the abdomen).
  • Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    • Thine 's a tympany of sense. — Dryden.
    (De Quincey)