jejuneness

/dʤi'dʤu:nnis/
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jejuneness

The speaker's jejuneness made the lecture feel shallow.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • The quality of lacking nutritive value: Refers to the characteristic of being without nutritional substance or value.
    • The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated: Refers to the state of being dull, uninteresting, or lacking in liveliness, spirit, or intellectual depth.
    • The state of lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life: Refers to the condition of being immature, naive, or showing a deficiency in worldly knowledge and experience.
Examples of Usage
  • Noun:
    • The jejuneness of the diet concerned the nutritionist. (The lack of nutritive value in the diet was a concern for the nutritionist.)
    • The critic dismissed the novel for its jejuneness and predictable plot. (The critic rejected the novel because of its vapid, unsophisticated nature and predictable plot.)
    • His jejuneness was apparent in his overly idealistic view of politics. (His lack of life experience was clear from his overly idealistic view of politics.)
Advanced Usage
  • In a figurative sense: Can describe abstract concepts like arguments, writing, or ideas that are intellectually barren or immature.
    • The debate was marked by a surprising jejuneness, offering no new insights. (The debate was characterized by a surprising lack of substance, offering no new insights.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Jejune (Adjective): Lacking nutritive value; dull, uninteresting; immature, childish.
    • The lecture was disappointingly jejune. (The lecture was disappointingly dull and unsophisticated.)
  • Jejunely (Adverb): In a jejune manner.
    • He spoke jejunely about complex economic issues. (He spoke in an unsophisticated, naive way about complex economic issues.)
Synonyms
  • Insipidity: Lack of flavor or interest; dullness.
  • Vapidity: The quality of being vapid; offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.
  • Naivety: Lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
  • Barrenness: The quality of being unproductive or lacking in ideas.
Antonyms
  • Sophistication: The quality of being sophisticated; having worldly experience and knowledge.
  • Nutritiveness: The quality of being nutritious.
  • Profundity: Great depth of insight or knowledge.
jejuneness

The speaker's jejuneness made the lecture feel shallow.

Noun
  1. quality of lacking nutritive value
  2. the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
  3. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

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