[f. as prec. + -NESS.] = VAPIDITY.
1727. Bailey, Vapidness, deadness, flatness, palledness of liquors.
1820. Keats, in Rossetti, Life (1887), 142. When once a person has smoked the vapidness of the routine of society.
1825–9. Mrs. Sherwood, Lady of Manor, IV. xxviii. 392. The vapidness,… the languor and vexation, which accompany the life of an unconverted man.
1907. Daily Chron., 12 Nov., 3/5. Her work … in one or two instances sinks into vapidness.
