bluntness

bluntness

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈblʌnt.nəs/, /ˈblʌnt.nɪs/, [ˈblʌnʔ.nɪs]

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Noun

bluntness (countable and uncountable, plural bluntnesses)

1. The characteristic of being blunt.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     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

Finnish: tylppyys (fi) Latvian: trulums m Macedonian: та́пост f (tápost), зата́пеност f (zatápenost) Manx: (of a point) neuvirrid m, (of tools, etc.) moandid m, moandys m, (of person, speech, etc.) bryntid m, bryntys m, moalaght f, moalid m Polish: bezceremonialność (pl) f (of a person or action) Russian: затупление (ru) n (zatuplenije), туповатость (ru) f (tupovatostʹ)