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Meanings of staleness in English

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trivialitat

Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging.

        trivialitat

        Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed.

              Usage of staleness in English
              1
              The plant thus gives a reversed response under abnormal conditions of staleness.
              Response in the Living and Non-Living
              2
              A century old, bare and clean, they had an air of staleness.
              Year's best sf 15
              3
              The result is a preponderance of repetition, with once-fresh ideas driven to staleness.
              The Irish Times
              4
              The air was cool after the fetid staleness of that room.
              O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
              5
              The oddest mixture of staleness and of freshness is to be found there.
              My Contemporaries In Fiction
              6
              It was infinitely forlorn and empty, with an air of staleness and discomfort.
              The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
              7
              He, too, who had admonished her rather sneeringly for staleness in her information.
              Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
              8
              I ascribe the staleness of American poetry to the griddle-cakes of our Puritan ancestors.
              The House of the Vampire
              9
              Kwel smell of staleness, of sourness, above all of coldness!
              The Day of the Boomer Dukes
              10
              I begin my excuses by moaning about the staleness, but I can only blame myself.
              The Guardian
              11
              We parted-ofcourse; but not in weariness, not in the grey staleness of fatigue and boredom.
              The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
              12
              Each closed house held its own distinctive staleness.
              The Quiet Earth
              13
              There was a general odor of decaying fruit and fish, a smell of staleness and putridity.
              The Cruise of the Dazzler
              14
              The odor was nauseating-thestaleness left by a not too clean sleeper who abhors fresh air.
              Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
              15
              The old staleness: hiring an expert to design soundscapes for bars, restaurants, museums, and the like.
              Wired
              16
              The musty staleness of the dark corridors faded.
              The First King of Shannara
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              Staleness through the time