Synonyms and related words :
aridity, aridness, banality, banalness, barrenness, cliche, commonness, commonplaceness, corniness, dearth of ideas, dryness, dullness, familiarness, fustiness, hackneyedness, infecundity, infertility, mustiness, platitudinousness, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, squareness, staidness, staleness, stolidity, stuffiness, triteness, uncreativeness, unfancifulness, unimaginativeness, unpoeticalness