blandness

n.

The state or quality of being bland.

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noun

1. A lack of excitement, liveliness, or interest: asepticism, colorlessness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, dullness, flatness, flavorlessness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, lifelessness, sterileness, sterility, stodginess, vapidity, vapidness, weariness. See excite/bore/interest.
2. The state or quality of being insipid: innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, washiness, wateriness. Informal wishy-washiness. See excite/bore/interest, taste/bad taste.

IN BRIEF: Being without taste.

The first thing she noticed was the extreme blandness of her food.

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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern

Meaning #2: lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property
  Synonyms: insipidity, insipidness

Meaning #3: smooth and gracious in manner
  Synonyms: suavity, suaveness

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