The quality of being blunt; the state of lacking sharpness, or the characteristic of speaking directly without tact.
From 'blunt' plus the abstract noun suffix '-ness,' which converts adjectives into nouns describing qualities. This is one of the most productive suffixes in English.
Historians note that 'bluntness' was celebrated in Viking culture but criticized in Victorian society—the same trait was described by the same word but valued completely differently depending on the era.
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