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Lack vs Insipidness - What's the difference?

lack | insipidness |

As nouns the difference between lack and insipidness

is that lack is (obsolete) a defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy while insipidness is a lack of distinctive, appealing, or energetic character; tastelessness; extreme blandness.

As a verb lack

is to be without, to need, to require.

lack

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let his lack of years be no impediment.
  • * 1994 , (Green Day),
    • I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.''
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Moldova 0-5 England , passage=If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.}}

    Antonyms

    * glut * surplus

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be without, to need, to require.
    • My life lacks excitement.
  • To be short (of'' or ''for something).
    • He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What hour now? I think it lacks of twelve.
  • To be in want.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 10
    • The young lions do lack , and suffer hunger.

    Related terms

    * lackluster

    Anagrams

    * ----

    insipidness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A lack of distinctive, appealing, or energetic character; tastelessness; extreme blandness.
  • * 1948 , William S. Lieberman, "Modern French Tapestries," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin , New Series, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 142:
    • As Jean Lurcat said, "The art had died, killed by consumption, insipidness , lymphatism, and inversion."
  • * 1977 , K. C. Bennett, "Practical Criticism Revisited,' College English , vol. 38, no. 6, p. 575:
    • This poem suffers from structural weakness, indeed insipidness .
  • * 1983 , Kiyoshi Takeyama, "Tadao Andô: Heir to a Tradition," Perspecta , vol. 20, p. 180:
    • His void spaces are a criticism of the insipidness of the overly materialistic modern way of life.

    Synonyms

    * insipidity, tastelessness, vapidity