feeling of staleness

It even changed the smell of it from time to time, so there was no feeling of staleness.

His own feeling of staleness as an editor had much to do with his disenchantment at the kind of culture with which he now had to deal.

In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue, he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as "to be a new emotion" ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor.