Mundane vs. Insipid

Mundaneadjective

Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

Insipidadjective

unappetizingly flavorless

‘The diners were disappointed with the plain, insipid soup they were served.’;

Mundaneadjective

Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.

Insipidadjective

flat; lacking character or definition

‘The textbook had a most insipid presentation of the controversy.’;

Mundaneadjective

Ordinary; not new.

Insipidadjective

cloyingly sweet or sentimental

‘Greeting cards contain some of the most insipid words ever written.’;

Mundaneadjective

Tedious; repetitive and boring.

Insipidadjective

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.

Mundanenoun

An unremarkable, ordinary human being.

Insipidadjective

Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.

‘Flat, insipid, and ridiculous stuff to him.’; ‘But his wit is faint, and his salt, if I may dare to say so, almost insipid.’;

Mundanenoun

A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.

Insipidadjective

lacking taste or flavor or tang;

‘a bland diet’; ‘insipid hospital food’; ‘flavorless supermarket tomatoes’; ‘vapid beer’; ‘vapid tea’;

Mundanenoun

(fandom slang) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.

Insipidadjective

lacking significance or impact;

‘an insipid novel’;

Mundaneadjective

Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere; mundane concerns.

‘The defilement of mundane passions.’;

Insipidadjective

lacking interest or significance;

‘an insipid personality’; ‘jejune novel’;

Mundaneadjective

Commonplace; ordinary; banal.

Insipidadjective

not pleasing to the sense of taste

Mundaneadjective

found in the ordinary course of events;

‘a placid everyday scene’; ‘it was a routine day’; ‘there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute’;

Insipidadjective

lacking flavour; weak or tasteless

‘mugs of insipid coffee’;

Mundaneadjective

concerned with the world or worldly matters;

‘mundane affairs’; ‘he developed an immense terrestrial practicality’;

Insipidadjective

lacking vigour or interest

‘many artists continued to churn out insipid, shallow works’;

Mundaneadjective

belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly;

‘not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind’; ‘so terrene a being as himself’;

Mundaneadjective

lacking interest or excitement; dull

‘his mundane, humdrum existence’;

Mundaneadjective

of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one

‘according to the Shinto doctrine, spirits of the dead can act upon the mundane world’;

Mundaneadjective

relating to or denoting the branch of astrology that deals with the prediction of earthly events.

Mundane

In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary. The term first came into use in science fiction fandom to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955.