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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 frankness
Familiarity information: BLUFFNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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