Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of making obtuse or blunt.
- noun The state of being dulled or blunted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of making obtuse or blunt.
- noun The state of being dulled or blunted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The
blunting ,dulling , orweakening of normalsensation .
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Examples
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As a literary journalist who has interviewed and written about many contemporary writers, I can tell you that writers practice the strange art of willful obtusion.
Joe Woodward: Biography: The Falsest Art? Joe Woodward 2010
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As a literary journalist who has interviewed and written about many contemporary writers, I can tell you that writers practice the strange art of willful obtusion.
Joe Woodward: Biography: The Falsest Art? Joe Woodward 2010
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As a literary journalist who has interviewed and written about many contemporary writers, I can tell you that writers practice the strange art of willful obtusion.
Joe Woodward: Biography: The Falsest Art? Joe Woodward 2010
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The Oxford American Dictionary lists obtuseness, but not obtusion.
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