jejuneness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

JEJU'NENESS, noun Poverty, barrenness; particularly, want of interesting matter; a deficiency of matter that can engage the attention and gratify the mind; as the jejuneness of style or narrative. [Jejunity is not used.]
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