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bluntnesses

bluntnesses is the plural of bluntness.

Meaning of bluntness

Noun

bluntness (countable and uncountable, plural bluntnesses)

  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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

Questions about bluntnesses

What is bluntnesses the plural of?
Bluntnesses is the plural of bluntness.

Words near bluntnesses in the dictionary

  1. Bluntisham
  2. bluntishly
  3. bluntishness
  4. bluntly
  5. bluntness
  6. bluntnesses
  7. bluntnose
  8. bluntnose guitarfish
  9. bluntnose sixgill shark
  10. bluntnose sixgill sharks
  11. bluntnoses

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