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Pertness vs Apertness - What's the difference?

pertness | apertness |

As nouns the difference between pertness and apertness

is that pertness is the quality of being pert; cheekiness, impudence while apertness is (archaic) openness; frankness.

pertness

English

Noun

  • The quality of being pert; cheekiness, impudence.
  • * 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1021:
    • He was completely bald and had a heavy, Chinese-looking countenance which contained, deeply embedded, two eyes of penetration and pertness , always twinkling on the edge of laughter.
  • The quality of being pert; firmness (usually of breasts).

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    apertness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) openness; frankness
    • (Theodore Edward Hook)
  • * Holder
    • The freedom or apertness and vigour of pronouncing, as in the Bocca Romana, and giving somewhat more of aspiration; and the closeness and muffling, and laziness of speaking, render the sound of speech different.
    (Webster 1913)