Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-SI-PID'I-TY, or IN-SIP'ID-NESS
IN-SI-PID'I-TY, or IN-SIP'ID-NESS, n. [Fr. insipidité.]
- Want of taste, or the power of exciting sensation in the tongue.
- Want of life or spirit. Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's. Pope.
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