Abruptness: Definition and part of speech

Abruptness

  1. n. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
  2. n. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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