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Princeton's WordNet

  1. uninterestingadjective

    arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement

    "a very uninteresting account of her trip"

  2. uninterestingadjective

    characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative

    "institutional food"

Wiktionary

  1. uninterestingadjective

    Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.

  2. Etymology: From un- + interesting.

Wikipedia

  1. uninteresting

    Attention is the behavioral and cognitive process of selectively concentrating on a discrete aspect of information, whether considered subjective or objective, while ignoring other perceivable information. William James (1890) wrote that "Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence." Attention has also been described as the allocation of limited cognitive processing resources. Attention is manifested by an attentional bottleneck, in terms of the amount of data the brain can process each second; for example, in human vision, only less than 1% of the visual input data (at around one megabyte per second) can enter the bottleneck, leading to inattentional blindness.Attention remains a crucial area of investigation within education, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychology. Areas of active investigation involve determining the source of the sensory cues and signals that generate attention, the effects of these sensory cues and signals on the tuning properties of sensory neurons, and the relationship between attention and other behavioral and cognitive processes, which may include working memory and psychological vigilance. A relatively new body of research, which expands upon earlier research within psychopathology, is investigating the diagnostic symptoms associated with traumatic brain injury and its effects on attention. Attention also varies across cultures.The relationships between attention and consciousness are complex enough that they have warranted perennial philosophical exploration. Such exploration is both ancient and continually relevant, as it can have effects in fields ranging from mental health and the study of disorders of consciousness to artificial intelligence and its domains of research.

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  1. uninteresting

    Uninteresting refers to anything that fails to arouse curiosity or enthusiasm, does not hold one's attention or is deemed dull, mundane, or bland. It applies to something or someone that lacks appealing, distinctive, or stimulating features.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. uninteresting

    1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it. 2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code.Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. Real hackers (see toolsmith) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them — thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See WOMBAT, SMOP; compare toy problem, oppose interesting.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of uninteresting in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of uninteresting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of uninteresting in a Sentence

  1. Oscar Wilde:

    Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

  2. Arthur Schopenhauer:

    If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

  3. Oscar Wilde:

    The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

  4. Marlene Dietrich:

    Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

  5. G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905):

    There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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