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tastelessness

tastelessness

5.1
Food or drink that has no flavor
  • noun
  • /ˈteɪstləsnəs/
translation icon : 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
savorlessness
vstastelessness
  • US
9.9

Food or drink that has no taste

is the identical meaning describing lack of flavor
flavorlessness
vstastelessness
  • US
8.1

A lack of taste in food or drink

is the exact same sense of total flavor absence
insipidness
vstastelessness
8.2

Being dull and without strong taste or interest

focuses only on literal absence of flavor, not dullness of spirit

Antonyms

richness
8 3.2

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

How Tasty

richness
8 3.2
tastiness
1 1.2
blandness
1 4.1
tastelessness
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'.