undullness

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Noun

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undullness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of not being dull.
    • 1942, Ronald Owen Hall, The Missionary-Artist Looks at His Job, page 11:
      This quality of surprising undullness you will find among artists and among the saints, saints in our modern sense.
    • 2005, Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Newsletter (issues 33-36, page 14)
      [] a psychologic attitude required for creative activity – a condition including such qualities like curiosity, undullness of the sense organs, craving for impressions, readiness for the search of creative ideas and solutions.