undullness

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noun

The quality of not being dull.

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Meanings

nounundullness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of not being dull.

    This quality of surprising undullness you will find among artists and among the saints, saints in our modern sense.

    1942, Ronald Owen Hall, The Missionary-Artist Looks at His Job, page 11
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    […] a psychologic attitude required for creative activity – a condition including such qualities like curiosity, undullness of the sense organs, craving for impressions, readiness for the search of creative ideas and solutions.

    2005, Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Newsletter (issues 33-36, page 14)

Origin

From undull + -ness.

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APA

undullness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undullness

MLA

“undullness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undullness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undullness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undullness.

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