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tastelessness

tastelessness

1 5.1
Food or drink that has no flavor
  • noun
  • /ˈteɪstləsnəs/
: insipidez
  • The soup was so overcooked that it had turned into a tastelessness that no amount of seasoning could fix.

Examples

  • His disapproval of the dish stemmed from its tastelessness, making him wish for a more flavorful meal.

  • At the thought of vodka's sickly tastelessness, bile rose in his throat.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The chance to raise a community's cultural profile is wasted, and the lingering tastelessness is once again there for all to see.

    Blog text (15)

  • In that case, the tastelessness would appear to be more on Bethesda's part, using materials like that to promote a game that contradicts that message directly.

    Blog text (21)

  • Many people avoid bland foods because they dislike the tastelessness that comes with stale ingredients.

Synonyms

blandness
vstastelessness
1 4.1

A lack of strong taste in food

refers specifically to total absence of flavor rather than mildness
insipidity
vstastelessness
1 9.6

Lack of flavor or interest that makes something dull

is restricted to the pure absence of flavor, not mood or style
insipidness
vstastelessness
1 8.2

Being dull and without strong taste or interest

focuses only on literal absence of flavor, not dullness of spirit
flavorlessness
vstastelessness
  • US
1 8.1

A lack of taste in food or drink

is the exact same sense of total flavor absence
savorlessness
vstastelessness
  • US
9.9

Food or drink that has no taste

is the identical meaning describing lack of flavor

Antonyms

richness
5 3.2

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

How Tasty

richness
5 3.2
tastiness
1 1.2
blandness
1 4.1
tastelessness
1 5.1

Surface Forms

tastelessness singular
tastelessnesses plural

Morphology

tastelessness = tasteless (transparent) = taste + less + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'tasteless', yielding a straightforward nominalization of the adjective.

Etymology

Tastelessness starts with taste, a word that originally meant 'to try' or 'to touch food' so you know it is about flavor. With -less ('without') and -ness ('state'), tastelessness literally means the 'state of having no taste' or 'no flavor'.