Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Jejuneuess; meagerness; brevity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.

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  • noun Jejuneness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
  • noun quality of lacking nutritive value

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Examples

  • Because the elements of student work in the fine arts appear to be less easily catalogued, less easily articulated, it is, or should be, much easier in the art world to use accusations of jejunity to dismiss artwork for reasons other than immaturity --- reasons such as racism or sexism, for example, work that challenges prevailing ideas too much.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • Because the elements of student work in the fine arts appear to be less easily catalogued, less easily articulated, it is, or should be, much easier in the art world to use accusations of jejunity to dismiss artwork for reasons other than immaturity --- reasons such as racism or sexism, for example, work that challenges prevailing ideas too much.

    Fad Writing and Morality 2006

  • It was incredible to him that any one who had read history could be guilty of such jejunity, and he attributed it to their bruised but itching egos.

    Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • She might have heard of his marriage to a girl of his own land and class with only a passing spasm, but his continued and possibly tender friendship with her sister-in-law shook her out of the last of her jejunity and its illusions ....

    The Sisters-In-Law Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

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