stodginess
Heavy, plodding quality
Stodginess is the quality of being dull, heavy, and old-fashioned.
It suggests resistance to change and a lack of imagination or vitality: the stodginess of academic bureaucracy, The restaurant's stodginess showed in its unchanged menu from 1975.
The word derives from stodgy, originally describing heavy, filling food that sits unpleasantly in the stomach.
Adherence to inherited customs
- conventionalityAdherence to accepted customs
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
- fustinessStale, airless quality
stuffiness · formality · propriety · conformity · prudishness · hidebound · strait-laced · uptight
Failing to engage interest
- tediousBoring through length
- uninspiredLacking creative spark
- humdrumLacking variety or excitement
- monotonousUnchangingly dull
lifeless · unimaginative · pedestrian · plodding · dreary · vapid · stale · tiresome
State of being unbending
- stubbornnessRefusal to yield
- obstinacyUnyielding adherence to position
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
unbending · immovability · resistance · calcified · entrenched · dogmatic · uncompromising · fixed
Material placed within
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
- richnessState of abundance
- indigestibleCannot be absorbed
- leadenOppressively heavy or dull
dense · substantial · hearty · cloying · sodden · greasy · overloaded · weighted
traditionalism
Adherence to inherited customs
- conventionalityAdherence to accepted customs
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
fustiness · stuffiness · formality · propriety · conformity · prudishness · hidebound · strait-laced · uptight · prim
boring
Failing to engage interest
- tediousBoring through length
- uninspiredLacking creative spark
- humdrumLacking variety or excitement
monotonous · lifeless · unimaginative · pedestrian · plodding · dreary · vapid · stale · tiresome · prosaic
rigidity
State of being unbending
- stubbornnessRefusal to yield
- obstinacyUnyielding adherence to position
- intransigenceRefusal to compromise
unyielding · unbending · immovability · resistance · calcified · entrenched · dogmatic · uncompromising · fixed · stuck
filling
Material placed within
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
- richnessState of abundance
- indigestibleCannot be absorbed
leaden · dense · substantial · hearty · cloying · sodden · greasy · overloaded · weighted · sluggish
- uncool traitsnerdiness, geekiness, awkwardness, lameness, dorkiness
stodginessexcitement
State of eager enthusiasm
vitality · liveliness · vivacity · dynamism · energy
stodginessinnovativeness
Quality of introducing newness
freshness · originality · creativity · progressiveness · modernity
stodginesslightness
Minimal weight or gravity
airiness · breeziness · nimbleness · agility · sprightliness