bluntness

Other forms of bluntness

plural

bluntnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bluntness

What does bluntness mean?

bluntness means "the quality of being direct and outspoken". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bluntness?

bluntness has 2 syllables: blunt-ness. The stress falls on "blunt". In IPA it is /ˈblʌntnəs/.

What is another word for bluntness?

Close synonyms include dullness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bluntness a common word?

bluntness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.