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jejunity

jejunity

9.9
A lack of real substance or value that leaves you unsatisfied
  • noun
  • /dʒɪˈdʒuːnɪti/
  • Archaic
translation icon : jejunidad
  • Despite the colorful packaging, the cereal's jejunity left consumers unsatisfied and hungry soon after breakfast.

Examples

  • The critic remarked on the jejunity of the novel, noting its lack of intellectual nourishment.

  • Scholars debated the jejunity of the new curriculum, arguing it offered little substantive value.

  • The jejunity of the meal left me feeling unsatisfied.

  • The dish lacked flavor and jejunity was evident.

  • Despite the colorful packaging, the cereal's jejunity left consumers unsatisfied and hungry soon after breakfast.

  • The critic remarked on the jejunity of the novel, noting its lack of intellectual nourishment.

  • Scholars debated the jejunity of the new curriculum, arguing it offered little substantive value.

Synonyms

emptiness
vsjejunity
58 5.3

A feeling that life has no meaning

leans toward lacking nutritive or substantive value instead of mere purposelessness
senselessness
vsjejunity
2 7.0

A state of having no meaning or purpose

conceives emptiness as nutritional or substantive deficiency not just lack of reason
vacuity
vsjejunity
1 9.2

A lack of ideas or meaning

highlights lack of substance in value or nutrition rather than ideas
poorness
vsjejunity
1 5.3

A state of having low quality or too little of something

focuses on lacking substance or nutrition rather than low quality alone
jejuneness
vsjejunity
  • Specialized
9.9

The quality of food having little nutritional value

is identical in meaning but differs only in word ending
insubstantiality
vsjejunity
9.2

A lack of being real, strong, or convincing

focuses on lack of physical or real substance rather than nutritive emptiness
voidness
vsjejunity
8.1

A feeling of emptiness after something important ends

emphasizes emptiness of worth or nourishment rather than physical vacancy

Antonyms

richness
8 3.2

A full, deep quality in taste, sound, or color that pleases the senses

substantiality
1 7.9

Having real importance or enough evidence to be believed

How Nutritive

nourishment
38 2.0
meagerness
  • US
1 7.0
jejunity
  • Archaic
9.9
emptiness
58 5.3

Surface Forms

jejunity singular
jejunities plural

Morphology

jejunity = jejune (transparent) = jejune + ity

Formed by the adjective 'jejune' + the noun-forming suffix '-ity', so the meaning 'state or quality of being jejune' follows directly.

Etymology

Jejunity comes from the Latin word jejunus, which means 'fast' or 'empty', like when you have not eaten. So jejunity describes something with little real substance or 'nutritional' value that leaves you still hungry.