Definition of Jejuneness

1. Noun. Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life.

Exact synonyms: Callowness, Juvenility
Generic synonyms: Immatureness, Immaturity
Derivative terms: Jejune, Juvenile

2. Noun. The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated.
Exact synonyms: Jejunity, Tameness, Vapidity, Vapidness
Generic synonyms: Dullness
Derivative terms: Jejune, Jejune, Jejune, Tame, Vapid, Vapid

3. Noun. Quality of lacking nutritive value.
Exact synonyms: Jejunity
Generic synonyms: Morbidity, Morbidness, Unwholesomeness
Derivative terms: Jejune, Jejune

Definition of Jejuneness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being jejune. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jejuneness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jejuneness

jehadist
jehadists
jehads
jehu
jehus
jejeunostomy
jejeunum
jejuna
jejunal
jejunal and ileal veins
jejunal arteries
jejunal artery
jejune
jejunectomy
jejunely
jejuneness (current term)
jejunenesses
jejunities
jejunitis
jejunity
jejuno-
jejunocolostomy
jejunogastric
jejunoileal
jejunoileal shunt
jejunoileites
jejunoileitis
jejunoileostomies

Literary usage of Jejuneness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"Of bodies, some (we see) are hard, and some soft : the hardness is caused (chiefly) by the jejuneness of the spirits, aud their imparity with the tangible ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"... as soon as he was beginning to think for himself and not to reproduce his father's teaching, his style never could be charged with jejuneness. ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"Though there is a frequent dryness, timidity, and jejuneness in his manner, he has left a number of pictures of domestic comfort and social refinement, ..."

4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"They are guarded by the sacred rules of prescription, found in that full treasury of jurisprudence from which the jejuneness and penury of our municipal law ..."

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