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Suavity vs Bluntness - What's the difference?

suavity | bluntness |

As nouns the difference between suavity and bluntness

is that suavity is sweetness to the taste while bluntness is the characteristic of being blunt.

suavity

English

Noun

(suavities)
  • (obsolete) Sweetness to the taste.
  • The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; smoothness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.
  • *1881 , :
  • [...] nothing, not even the crude curves of the railway, can utterly deform the suavity of contour of one bay after another along the whole reach of the Riviera.
    ..names full of legendary suavity and interest..

    See also

    * suaveness * blandness

    References

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    bluntness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The characteristic of being blunt.
  • *, chapter=12
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}