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.]

  1. Want of taste, or the power of exciting sensation in the tongue.
  2. Want of life or spirit. Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of Tate's. Pope.

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