[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being brusque or off-handed; bluntness.
1859. Helps, Friends in C., Ser. II. II. vii. 137. Their sensitiveness is shocked by his brusqueness.
1884. Roe, in Harpers Mag., June, 92/1. Kindness, and
girlish brusqueness were
equally blended.