tameness
- n the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
- n the attribute of having been domesticated
- The source of Howells' crippling tameness is more complex than his frequently cited refusal to write about sex (no American could write about sex in those days of rump-hump .
- His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage.
- As Rodgers Hart see it, what was killing musicomedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon.