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abruptness

noun
/əˈbɹʌp.nəs/US

Etymology

From abrupt + -ness.

  1. borrowed from abruptus
  2. suffixed as abruptness — “abrupt + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being abrupt or broken

  2. Suddenness

    Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence.

    • So be neither diffuse with damp and slippery words nor blunt the edge of your discourse by abruptness of style. Study in particular the purest period of style, that those who move only to Ciceronian rhythm call you not a Celt.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for abruptness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA