[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being jejune.
1. Deficiency of (physical) substance; thinness, meagreness, attenuation.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 799. The Ieiunenesse or extreme Comminution of Spirits.
1703. Art Vintners & Wine-Coopers, 5. The grand and proxim Cause seems to be their Jejuneness and poverty of Spirits.
2. Emptiness of interest or intellectually satisfying quality; baldness, meagerness, poverty.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VIII. i. § 41. Many much admiring the jejunenesse of his discourse.
1796. Burke, Lett. to Noble Lord, Wks. VIII. 48. The jejuneness and penury of our municipal law.
1886. Stubbs, Lect. Hist., xv. 339. The pages of the annalist, where there are any, are so dull that we scarcely complain of their jejuneness.
