bluntness
English
Etymology
From Middle English bluntnes, bluntnesse, equivalent to blunt + -ness.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
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.
Translations
the characteristic of being blunt
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