[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being brusque or off-handed; bluntness.

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1859.  Helps, Friends in C., Ser. II. II. vii. 137. Their sensitiveness is shocked by his brusqueness.

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1884.  Roe, in Harper’s Mag., June, 92/1. Kindness, and … girlish brusqueness were … equally blended.

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