bluntness

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈblʌnt.nəs/(US)
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/ˈblʌnt.nəs/(US) · /ˈblʌnt.nɪs/(US) · [ˈblʌnʔ.nɪs](US)

Definition of bluntness

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The characteristic of being blunt.
    “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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Etymology

From Middle English bluntnes, bluntnesse, equivalent to blunt + -ness.

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