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Obtusity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    obtuseness countable, uncountable

    "Some ladies would have thought it high time to leave the Squire alone with his chestnut tree; or, at all events, unnecessary to keep up that tone of high-souled feminine obtusity which they are quite justified in adopting if the gentlemen will not speak out—but Jane again does neither."

Etymology

From obtuse + -ity, from Latin obtusitas.

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