jejuneness

Its very simplicity excites suspicion; its apparent jejuneness suggest all sorts of mysterious and malignant designs.

He was far more of a scientific musician than Gluck, and his scores have nothing of his master's jejuneness.

And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.

If a reader new to the classics opened Thucydides, his first impression would probably be one of jejuneness, of baldness.