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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.
Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
1.
Coarseness of address; roughness of manners, rude sincerity or plainness.

Definition 2024


bluntness

bluntness

English

Noun

bluntness (countable and uncountable, plural bluntnesses)

  1. 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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