obtuseness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OBTU'SENESS, noun 1. Bluntness; as the obtuseness of an edge or a point. 2. Dullness; want of quick sensibility; as the obtuseness of the senses. 3. Dullness of sound.
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