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Etymology

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drab +‎ -ness

Noun

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drabness (countable and uncountable, plural drabnesses)

  1. The characteristic of being drab.
    • 1980 April 12, Robert Hollins, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
      The loneliness and drabness of prison life is destroying me.

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