bluntness, dullness, dulness

acerbity, punctiliousness, pithiness, facetiousness, journalese, wryness, imperiousness, ineloquent, hauteur, politesse, officiousness, obtuseness, drollery, solecism, terseness, unworldliness, condescension, inoffensiveness, sarcasm, primness, daintiness, ungrammatically, circumlocution, prolixity, pompousness, dissembler, pedantry, curtness, ironist, irascibility, priggishness, sangfroid, split infinitive, succinctness, garrulousness, incredulousness, indignance, fusspot, ingenuousness, wordiness, archness, wittedness, diffidence, breeziness, sheepishness, uptightness, monosyllable, archaism, eloquence, unshowy, flintiness, poesy, ruefulness, suavity, artlessness, locution, plainness, felicity, apercus, drollness, inelegance, dandyism, nasality, bluntness, dogmatist, arguer, formalism, bon mot, sunniness, presumptuousness, attitudinizing, demureness, cantankerousness, nabokovian, peevishness, concision, empiricist, directness, stolidity, panegyric, incuriosity, pugnacity, grammarian, articulacy, windiness, roguishness, touchiness, mozartian, good naturedness, haughtiness, sophistries, sternness, erudition, academicism, lugubriousness, sneery, churlishness, billet doux, quiddity, casuistry, inwardness, inscrutability, acrimony, harshness, bitterness, keenness, liveliness, shrewdness, brilliancy, coldness, graciousness, reluctance, severity, sharpness, vehemence, vigour, abruptness, brilliance, disfavour

difficultness, difficulty, ill nature

grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severity, sharpness