prosiness
31unoriginality — Synonyms and related words: aridity, aridness, banality, banalness, barrenness, cliche, commonness, commonplaceness, corniness, dearth of ideas, dryness, dullness, familiarness, fustiness, hackneyedness, infecundity, infertility, mustiness,… …
32vernacular — Synonyms and related words: Babbittish, Philistine, aboriginal, accustomed, ancient language, argot, austerity, autochthonous, average, baldness, bareness, bourgeois, campy, candor, cant, classical language, colloquial, colloquial speech,… …
33prosy — 1814, from PROSE (Cf. prose) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Related: Prosiness …
34“Ex Oblivione“ — Prose poem (910 words); probably written in late 1920 or early 1921. First published (as by “Ward Phillips”) in the United Amateur(March 1921); rpt. Phantagraph(July 1937); first collected in BWS; corrected text in MW. A depressed and… …
35prosy — [ prəʊzi] adjective (of speech or writing) showing no imagination; commonplace or dull. Derivatives prosily adverb prosiness noun …
36insipidity — n.; (also insipidness) 1. Tastelessness, vapidness mawkishness, unsavoriness, staleness, flatness, lack of zest. 2. Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, tameness, prosiness, heaviness, lack of interest, uninteresting character …
37prosy — adjective a prosy style of writing or speech is boring and shows no imagination prosily adverb prosiness noun (U) …
38aridity — n 1. aridness, parchedness, extreme dryness, dehydration, evaporation, desiccation; torridity, torridness. 2. barrenness, unproductivity, unproductiveness, sterility, sterileness; infertility, infertileness, unfertili ty, unfruitfulness,… …
39insipidity — n 1. flatness, uninterestingness, jejuneness, jejunity, colorlessness, inexpressiveness, unimagi nativeness, lack of imagination or expression, insipidness; lifelessness, saplessness, spiritlessness, zestlessness, lack of vitality or animation,… …
40literalness — n 1. literality, accuracy, exactness, exactitude, precision, preciseness, closeness, faithfulness, trueness, truth, authenticity, honesty, ex plicitness; unambiguousness, unambiguity, clearness, unequivocality; factualness, factuality, actuality …
