different between dullness vs weariness

English

Alternative forms

• dulness

Etymology

From dull +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?l.n?s/

Noun

dullness (usually uncountable, plural dullnesses)

1. The quality of being slow of understanding things; stupidity.
2. The quality of being uninteresting; boring or irksome.
3. Lack of interest or excitement.
4. The lack of visual brilliance; want of sheen.

5. (of an edge) bluntness.
6. The quality of not perceiving or kenning things distinctly.

7. (archaic) Drowsiness.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     Prospero: […] Thou art inclin'd to sleep. 'Tis a good dulness, / And give it way— I know thou canst not choose.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English werynes, werinesse, from Old English w?ri?ness (“weariness”), equivalent to weary +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w???in?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w??in?s/
• Hyphenation: weari?ness

Noun

weariness (usually uncountable, plural wearinesses)

1. Exhaustion, fatigue or tiredness.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.

2. A lack of interest or excitement.

Synonyms

• defatigation
• fatigue

Translations