Suavity vs Bluntness - What's the difference?
suavity | bluntness |
(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 , :
The characteristic of being blunt.
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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)- [...] 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 * blandnessReferences
*bluntness
English
Noun
(-)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.}}