[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being bland; suavity, mild or soothing quality.
1846. Browning, Luria, II. i. This hating people, that hate each the other, And in one blandness to us Moors unite.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., V. 82. Envy was disarmed by the blandness of Albemarle’s temper.
1862. G. Wilson, Relig. Chem., 10. What water is among liquids, in blandness, neutrality, and indifference, nitrogen is among gases.
