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Vinony

bluntness

noun

  1. curtness/rudeness
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Pronunciation: /ˈblʌnt.nəs/ / /ˈblʌnt.nɪs/ / [ˈblʌnʔ.nɪs]

noun

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

  1. 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.”