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vapidity

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vap·id  (vpd, vpd)
adj.
1. Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
2. Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.
[Latin vapidus.]
va·pidi·ty, vapid·ness n.
vapid·ly adv.
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Noun1.vapidity - the quality of being vapid and unsophisticatedvapidity - the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
jejunity, tameness, vapidness, jejuneness
dullness - the quality of lacking interestingness; "the stories were of a dullness to bring a buffalo to its knees"
Translations
vapidity [væˈpɪdɪtɪ] N → insipidez f, sosería f
vapidity
n (liter, of conversation, remark, person) → Geistlosigkeit f; (of book, song) → Inhaltslosigkeit f; (of smile) (= insincerity) → Ausdruckslosigkeit f; (showing boredom) → Mattheit f; (of style) → Kraftlosigkeit f no pl; (of taste) → Schalheit f
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When we had been there half an hour or so, the case in progress--if I may use a phrase so ridiculous in such a connexion--seemed to die out of its own vapidity, without coming, or being by anybody expected to come, to any resuIt.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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