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Obtuseness is the quality of being obtuse: dullness of mind — slowness to see the point, or a blunt refusal to see it. That is the sense you will meet most often, and it is not a kind word. Though actually, writers sometimes stretch it toward emotional bluntness: not “they cannot do the sum,” but “they cannot feel how their words land.” The word is formal. In everyday talk, a friend would say “he's being thick” or “she's not getting it,” not “his obtuseness.” Maths can use obtuseness for how far an angle sits past 90°, a dry use with no insult in it, but that is not the usual people-sense of the noun.
遲鈍、不開竅
組成obtuse + -ness(……的性質/程度)。
同家族的字
- obtusethe adjective this noun is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
obtusenessnoun
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The quality of being obtuse.
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Something that is obtuse.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。