Definition of Bluffness

1. Noun. Good-natured frankness.

Generic synonyms: Frankness, Outspokenness
Derivative terms: Bluff

Definition of Bluffness

1. n. The quality or state of being bluff.

Definition of Bluffness

1. Noun. The quality of being bluff ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bluffness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluffness

bluff
bluff-bowed
bluff-headed
bluff catcher
bluff catchers
bluff out
bluffable
bluffed
bluffer
bluffers
bluffest
bluffing
bluffingly
blufflike
bluffly
bluffness (current term)
bluffnesses
bluffs
bluffy
bluggier
bluggiest
bluggy
bluid
bluidier
bluidiest
bluids
bluidy
bluier
bluiest
bluing

Literary usage of Bluffness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Rudeness, incivility, bluntness, bluffness, tien), spirits of hartshorn, liquid ammonia. Harum-scarum, a. (Co/log.) Volatile, rash, precipitate, wild. ..."

2. The Flying-machine from an Engineering Standpoint: A Reprint of the "James by Frederick William Lanchester, James Forrest lecture (1917)
"Now, when the bluffness is zero we have the case of a thin lamina in tangential ... When any degree of bluffness, whether by edge thickness or otherwise, ..."

3. Principle in Art, Etc by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1907)
"His brother says, " There was a certain British bluffness streaking the finely poised Italian suppleness and facility." This describes, better than perhaps ..."

4. Essays by a Barrister by James Fitzjames Stephen (1862)
"All these points are modifications of the geniality and warmth of heart which John Bull's external bluffness is meant to suggest It should ..."

5. Heretics by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1905)
"... his bluffness and toughness and appeals to common sense, all that is, of course, simply the first trick of rhetoric. He fronts his audiences with the ..."

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