FLAT'NESS, n. 1. Evenness of surface; levelness; equality of surface.2. Want of relief or prominence; as the flatness of a figure in sculpture.3. Deadness; vapidness; insipidity; as the flatness of cider or beer.4. Dejection of fortune; low state.The flatness of my misery.5. Dejection of mind; a low state of the spirits; depression; want of life.6. Dullness; want of point; insipidity; frigidity.Some of Homer's translators have swelled into fustian, and others sunk into flatness.7. Gravity of sound, as opposed to sharpness, acuteness or shrillness.Flatness of sound - joined with a harshness.
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