bluntness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being direct and outspoken
    • the bluntness of a Yorkshireman
  2. noun without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
    dullness.
    • the dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible

WordNet


Blunt"ness noun
Definitions
  1. Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.
    The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.
  2. A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.

Webster 1913