Obtuseness

Definitions: Obtuseness

Obtuseness

Noun

1. The quality of being slow to understand.

2. The quality of lacking a sharp edge or point.

Date "obtuseness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Synonyms: Obtuseness

Synonyms: dullness (n), dulness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: acuteness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Physical Insensibility	Noun: insensibility, physical insensibility; obtuseness. Adjective: palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia, anaesthesia; sleep; hemiplegia, motor paralysis; vegetable state; coma.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Obtuseness

English words defined with "obtuseness": Obtusity. (references)

Etymologies containing "obtuseness": Dullness. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The conceptualization, the whole abstraction, the obtuseness of this production to me was what was interesting. (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Other features include clumsy and uncoordinated motor movements, social impairment with extreme obtuseness, limited interests and/or unusual preoccupations, repetitive routines or rituals, speech and language peculiarities, and non-verbal communication problems. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Obtuseness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obtuseness" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	12	101,599

Language		Translations for "obtuseness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trashje (condensation, fixation, obesity, thickening), topitje (bewilderment, torpidity, torpor). (various references)

Arabic		‏متلبد الحس, ‏متحجر الحس, ‏إنسداد (jam, jamming, obstruction, occlusion, stop, stoppage, stopping). (various references)

Bulgarian		тъпота (bluntness, crassitude, density, dullness, opacity, purblindness, stolidity, stupidity, torpidity, torpor). (various references)

Chinese		迟钝 (Dopey, slowness). (various references)

Czech		tupost (abyss of ignorance, dullness, thickness). (various references)

French		stupidité, lenteur d'esprit, engorgement (obstruction, obturation). (various references)

German		Stumpfheit (bluntness, dullness, languor, stolidness, stupor). (various references)

Greek		αμβλύνοια, αμβλύτησ (bluntness), αμβλύτητα (dullness). (various references)

Hebrew		קהות חושים (stupefaction, stupor, torpidity), אטימות (dullness, impenetrability, opacity, opaqueness, tightness, waterproof). (various references)

Hungarian		tompaság (bluntness, dullness), korlátoltság (doltishness, fatuity, narrow mindedness, narrowness). (various references)

Italian		ottusità (bluntness, dullness), ottusita'. (various references)

Korean		둔함. (various references)

Pig Latin		obtusenessay

Romanian		obtuziune (obtusity), obtuzitate (lumpishness, obtusity), stupiditate (crassitude, density, foolishness, inanity, inaptitude, ineptitude, obtusity, stupidity), prostie (bosh, fatuity, Folly, foolery, foolishness, fudge, idiocy, ineptitude, lumpishness, madness, mischief, oafishness, obtusity, piffle, senseless remark, silly thing, simplicity, stupidity, tomfoolery), mãrginire (abutment, limitation, obtusity, parochialism), îngustime (narrow-mindednens, obtusity, parochialism). (various references)

Russian		тупость (bluntness, dullness, hebetude, opaqueness, stupidity, woodenness), бестолковость. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		otupljenost, zatupljenost. (various references)

Spanish		torpeza (awkwardness, blunder, bungling, clumsiness, inability, roughness, rustiness), estupidez (dullness, dumbness, foolishness, idiocy, stupidity), embotadura. (various references)

Thai		ความโง่ (imbecility, muddle-headedness). (various references)

Turkish		salaklık (idiocity, silliness), mankafalık, kalın kafalık, duygusuzluk (apathy, frigidity, indifference, insensibility, insusceptibility, phlegm, stolidity). (various references)

Ukranian		тупість (beetle, dullness, obtusity, opaqueness, oscitancy, oscitation, torpor), безглуздя (bull, humbug, nonsense, obtusity), приглушеність, дурість (asininity, fatuity, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, obtusity, opaqueness, sheepishness, silliness, stupidity). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự cùn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "obtuseness": obtusenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Obtuseness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: O'business. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "obtuseness" (pronounced 'Ob*tuse"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-n-o-s-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: tubenoses.
	-2 letters: bonesets, stenoses, subsense, subteens, subtones, tubenose.
	-3 letters: boneset, bonuses, butenes, outseen, outsees, subnets, subsets, subteen, subtone, sunsets, tonuses.
	-4 letters: besets, besots, betons, bosses, bosuns, bouses, busses, butene, buteos, ensues, nesses, nouses, obsess, obtuse, onsets, onuses, outsee, senses, setons, setose, setous, snouts, souses, stenos, stones, subnet, subset, sunset, tenses, tenues, tosses, touses, tusses.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-n-o-s-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: absoluteness, obtusenesses, robustnesses.
	+3 letters: beauteousness, bounteousness, doubtlessness, obtrusiveness.
	+4 letters: absolutenesses, abstemiousness, boastfulnesses, boisterousness, doubtfulnesses, obduratenesses, postpubescents, stubbornnesses, subadolescents.
	+5 letters: ambitiousnesses, beauteousnesses, bounteousnesses, bountifulnesses, bumptiousnesses, doubtlessnesses, obstructiveness, obtrusivenesses, subordinateness, superabsorbents, troublesomeness, troublousnesses, unobtrusiveness.
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