SuaviloquyToday’s word

dulness

Webster’s 1913 has no entry under this spelling.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for dulness; he lists it under stupidity.

Where he writes about it:

Stupidity is sometimes loosely used for temporary dulness or partial stupor, but chiefly for innate and chronic dulness and sluggishness of mental action, obtuseness of apprehension, etc. — from stupidity