BRUSQUENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brusqueness mean? 

• BRUSQUENESS (noun)
  The noun BRUSQUENESS has 1 sense:

1. an abrupt discourteous manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUSQUENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abrupt discourteous manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

abruptness; brusqueness; curtness; gruffness; shortness

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

discourtesy; rudeness (a manner that is rude and insulting)

Derivation:

brusque (marked by rude or peremptory shortness)

 Context examples 

He had felt his pulse quicken a trifle at the business manager's brusqueness, and upon him he kept an alert eye, for it was in that gentleman's trousers pocket that he divined the Transcontinental's ready cash was reposing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)