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BLUFFNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bluffness mean? 

BLUFFNESS (noun)
  The noun BLUFFNESS has 1 sense:

1. good-natured franknessplay

  Familiarity information: BLUFFNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLUFFNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Good-natured frankness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("bluffness" is a kind of...):

frankness; outspokenness (the trait of being blunt and outspoken)

Derivation:

bluff (bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured)


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