Quality of being dull; lacking a sharp edge or point.
The quality of being slow to understand.
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Examples for "obtuseness "
Examples for "obtuseness "
1 He realized her prospective generosity, and contrasted it with my actual obtuseness .
2 To the long record of its obtuseness it had added another item.
3 To things that go too deep, one opposes the bulwark of obtuseness .
4 Mrs. Thornburgh felt a rush of inward contempt for so much obtuseness .
5 It revolted him - this obtuseness that would not see that he hated her.
A lack of visual brightness.
1 And there for one moment I stood in the stock - dullness of despair.
2 The absence of Patience Oriel added to the dullness of the place.
3 I know by the dullness on the glass when I rub it.
4 Afterwards Alice often wondered at her dullness in not guessing the truth.
5 Never did Pretender speculate more dully upon the dullness of the masses.
6 It was chill; its dullness seemed to drive straight to her heart.
7 The quiet dullness of the lonely landscape harmonized with his own gloom.
8 Yet, now, in the dullness ran a faint suggestion of something sinister.
9 The Twenty-Eighth Century was boredom unendurable, the Twenty-Sixth a morass of dullness .
10 No, no, I am not so far gone in dullness as that.
11 Before long he would be given over to dullness and immitigable ennui.
12 Some learn to dull their shine, so that other's dullness can shine.
13 This is too often mistaken for dullness , and want of proper spirit.
14 She was wondering if any practical ability concealed itself behind his dullness .
15 Likewise dullness of mind is associated with every sin, according to Prov.
16 But gradually overcoming this physical dullness , his mind began to work again.
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