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insipidity

Meanings
  • adjective

    Lacking flavor or interest; bland or unimpressive.

Rhymes
Words rhyming with insipidity
apidity , avidity , prudity
Variants
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insipid , insipidities , insipidity , insipidly
Etymology
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From Latin insipidus, from in- 'not' + sapidus 'tasting, savory'.

Trivia
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  1. Insipidity is often used to describe food that lacks flavor or appeal.

  2. Insipid people are often described as boring or uninteresting.

  3. Insipidity is the opposite of savory or delicious.

Related Concepts
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  1. blandness: A lack of interest, excitement, or flavor.

  2. tasteless: Having no taste or flavor.

Quotes
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  1. While it is fashionable to write off that decade as an "insipid" time, one long pajama party, the '50s, in sport at least, were a revolutionary age.

    - Frank Deford,{it}Sports Illustrated{/it},27 Dec. 1999–31 Jan. 2000

  2. I'd climbed and fished in the emptiest reaches of the American West, but Alaska made the wilds of the lower 48 seem "insipid" and tame, a toothless simulacrum.

    - Jon Krakauer,{it}Smithsonian{/it},June 1995

  3. One evening, over beers, Rasala complained about some "insipid" movie recently shown on TV.

    - Tracy Kidder,{it}The Soul of a New Machine{/it},1981

  4. By contrast, what we know as "popular" or "mass" culture has always conformed to the most "insipid" prejudices, and the least subtle formulations, of society.

    - Joyce Carol Oates,{it}The Profane Art{/it},1983

How to Memorize "insipidity"

  1. visualize

    - Imagine a dish that is completely flavorless and unappetizing. Visualize the texture, color, and overall appearance of the insipid dish.

  2. associate

    - Associate the word 'insipidity' with bland, tasteless, and uninteresting things.

  3. mnemonics

    - Create a mnemonic by remembering the Latin origin of the word: 'In-' means 'not', and 'sapidus' means 'tasting'. So, insipidity means 'not tasting'.

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