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Webster 1913 Edition
Bluntness
Blunt′ness
,Noun.
1.
Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; lack of sharpness.
The multitude of elements and
bluntness
of angles. Holland.
2.
Abruptness of address; rude plainness.
“Bluntness of speech.” Boyle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bluntness
BLUNT'NESS
,Noun.
1.
Coarseness of address; roughness of manners, rude sincerity or plainness.Definition 2024
bluntness
bluntness
English
Noun
bluntness (countable and uncountable, plural bluntnesses)
- The characteristic of being blunt.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
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