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n. - Quality of lacking nutritive value; The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated; Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life.

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  • Adjective : a jejune novel. ,jejune behavior. ,jejune attempts to design a house. ,a jejune diet
  • If a reader new to the classics opened Thucydides, his first impression would probably be one of jejuneness, of baldness.
  • Beyond extravagant language, beyond absurd fine things, it lies in a certain lack of reality and sobriety of sense and view, -- in a certain indefinable jejuneness in...
  • He was far more of a scientific musician than Gluck, and his scores have nothing of his master's jejuneness.
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