blandness
(ˈblændnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being bland; suavity, mild or soothing quality.
| 1846 Browning Luria ii. i, This hating people, that hate each the other, And in one blandness to us Moors unite. a 1859 Macaulay Hist. Eng. V. 82 Envy was disarmed by the blandness of Albemarle's temper. 1862 G. Wilson Relig. Chem. 10 What water is among liquids, in blandness, neutrality, and indifference, nitrogen is among gases. |