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.

Noun

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