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Definition of Jejuneness
1. Noun. Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life.
Generic synonyms: Immatureness, Immaturity
Derivative terms: Jejune, Juvenile
2. Noun. The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated.
Generic synonyms: Dullness
Derivative terms: Jejune, Jejune, Jejune, Tame, Vapid, Vapid
3. Noun. Quality of lacking nutritive value.
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
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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