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STALENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("staleness" is a kind of...):
oldness (the opposite of youngness)
Attribute:
stale (lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "staleness"):
moldiness; must; mustiness (the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy)
Antonym:
freshness (the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated)
Derivation:
stale (lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed
Synonyms:
staleness; triteness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("staleness" is a kind of...):
unoriginality (uncreativeness due to a lack of originality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "staleness"):
camp (something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality)
Derivation:
stale (lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new)
