tedium, repetitiveness, triteness, didacticism, mundanity, wordiness, technobabble, banality, sappiness, staginess, overfamiliarity, drudgery, pompousness, boredom, dullness, joylessness, pointlessness, incomprehensibility, moroseness, cogitation, arduousness, aimlessness, monotony, acerbity, administrivia, inanity, busywork, metafiction, awkwardness, banalities, impassivity, weightiness, impersonality, minutia, everydayness, staleness, triviality, corniness, archness, griminess, pathos, literalness, heaviness, jadedness, melodramatics, drollness, ennui, unpleasantness, complexity, rote, silliness, grumpiness, jocularity, pretentiousness, zaniness, biliousness, mawkishness, implausibility, pensiveness, grandiloquence, ugliness, weariness, inarticulateness, grimness, distractedness, woodenness, ponderousness, incoherency, humdrum, vexations, digressions, insipidity, profundity, cliches, unoriginality, indirectness, pithiness, endlessness, ridiculousness, drudge, infelicities, weirdness, strangeness, blandness, irascibility, boringness, busyness, abjection, shmaltz, superciliousness, artlessness, crabbiness, monologuing, solitariness, artifice, nuance, haphazardness, subtleties, affectations, convolutions, lightheartedness, ickiness, prolixity, diffuseness, slowness, grossness, misery, tiredness, verbosity, overcrowding, rudeness, shortness, anguish, privation, vexation, arbitrariness

dullness, dulness

tedium, tiresomeness