slabness
nounEtymology From slab + -ness.
1
Rare The state or condition of being slablike.
- In recent years we have come a long way from the austere slabness of the so-called functional or Bauhaus school and from such blind alleys as Le Corbusier's fancy as a young man that a home should be a "machine to live in."1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing, The Rebirth of the American City, page 30:
- […] there was something of youth and eagerness and tension all hidden behind the slabness of his features, the greyness of shape rather than of colour. It was a face so unremarkable in its physical detail that only a couple of small razor nicks stuck in the memory.2015, Jim Williams, Farewell to Russia: