washiness

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wash·y

(wŏsh′ē, wô′shē)

adj. wash·i·er, wash·i·est

1. Pale in color; washed-out.

2. Watery; diluted: washy tea.

3. Lacking strength or resolution: "I must be a weak, washy, evil thing who could not possibly make up his mind" (Theodore Dreiser).

wash′i·ness n.

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washiness

noun

The state or quality of being insipid:

blandness, innocuousness, insipidity, insipidness, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, wateriness.

Informal: wishy-washiness.

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