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Definitions for Staleness
[1] not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread.
[2] musty; stagnant: stale air.
[3] having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke.
[4] having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation.
[5] Law . having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim.
[6] to make or become stale.
[7] (esp of food) hard, musty, or dry from being kept too long
[8] (of beer, etc) flat and tasteless from being kept open too long
[9] (of air) stagnant; foul
[10] uninteresting from overuse; hackneyed stale clichés
[11] no longer new stale news
[12] lacking in energy or ideas through overwork or lack of variety
[13] banking (of a cheque) not negotiable by a bank as a result of not having been presented within six months of being written
[14] law (of a claim, etc) having lost its effectiveness or force, as by failure to act or by the lapse of time
[15] to make or become stale
[16] (intr) (of livestock) to urinate
[17] the urine of horses or cattle
Words related to Staleness
staletedium, insipidness, dreariness, drabness, familiarity, tediousness, slowness, routine, flatness, vapidity, boredom, dryness, insipidity, sameness, aridity, weariness, sterility, mildness, gentility, blandness
Words nearby Staleness
stalestalactites, stalag, stalagmite, stalagmites, stalagmometer, stale, stale bull, stalemate, stalin, stalin peak, stalin's purge trials
Origin of Staleness
11250–1300; Middle English; akin to Middle Dutch stel in same sense; perhaps akin to stand or to stale2
Other words from Staleness
stale·ly , adverb
stale·ness , noun
Word origin for Staleness
C15: perhaps from Old French estaler to stand in one position; see stall 1 ; compare Middle Low German stallen to urinate, Greek stalassein to drip
Synonyms for Staleness
aridity, boredom, commonplaceness, drabness, dreariness, dryness, familiarity, flatness, insipidity, insipidness, lifelessness, routine, sameness, slowness, tediousness, tedium, uninterestingness, vapidity, monotomy