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Dullness may refer to:
In vision
edit- A lack of perceived brightness
- A lack of perceived colorfulness
In medicine
edit- A dull sound in response to percussion (medicine)
- Shifting dullness, a medical sign
In philosophy and religion
edit- Tamas (philosophy), one of the three tendencies in the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy
- Thīna, an unwholesome mental factor in Buddhism
- Laya or bying-ba, in the five faults and eight antidotes of Tibetan Buddhism
Other uses
edit- Dulling, the tendency of a blade to lose sharpness
- Stupidity
- A tendency to cause boredom
- Drowsiness (archaic)
See also
edit- Dull (disambiguation)
- Dulness, a goddess in The Dunciad
- Dully, a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
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