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Synonyms for blandness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : bland
Phonetic Transcription : blænd

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Définition of blandness

Origin :
  • 1660s, from Italian blando "delicate," or Old French bland "flattering, complimentary," both from Latin blandus "smooth-talking, flattering, alluring," perhaps from PIE *mlad-, nasalized variant of *meld-, extended form of root *mel- (see melt). Related: Blandly; blandness. Latin also had blandiloquentulus "flattering in speech," which might have yielded a useful English *blandiloquent.
  • noun dullness
Example sentences :
  • Her blandness was beyond all baiting; she professed she could be as still as a mouse.
  • Extract from : « The Tragic Muse » by Henry James
  • "Oh, yes, you will," and he smiled with a blandness that was maddening.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • Wetter suddenly assumed an air of great dignity and blandness.
  • Extract from : « The King's Mirror » by Anthony Hope
  • She threw into her smile all the blandness her sex alone can command.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Jermyn had turned round his savage side, and the blandness was out of sight.
  • Extract from : « Felix Holt, The Radical » by George Eliot
  • Then his eyes fell, and his tones changed to blandness once more.
  • Extract from : « Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim » by Carrie L. Marshall
  • There is a gift of blandness and briskness in the very breathing of the air.
  • Extract from : « Romantic Spain » by John Augustus O'Shea
  • "I would," said Edward Henry with a blandness that was only skin-deep.
  • Extract from : « The Regent » by E. Arnold Bennett
  • His rubicundity had increased and his blandness was dissolved.
  • Extract from : « The Lion's Share » by E. Arnold Bennett
  • The day was over and Madame's blandness was convincing evidence of her satisfaction.
  • Extract from : « Life and Gabriella » by Ellen Glasgow
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