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Abruptness

//əˈbɹʌp.nəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being abrupt or broken uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    an abrupt discourteous manner wordnet
  3. 3
    Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence. uncountable, usually

    "So be neither diffuse with damp and slippery words nor blunt the edge of your discourse by abruptness of style. Study in particular the purest period of style, that those who move only to Ciceronian rhythm call you not a Celt."

  4. 4
    the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning wordnet
  5. 5
    the property possessed by a slope that is very steep wordnet

Etymology

From abrupt + -ness.

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