ˈbrusqueness [f. as prec. + -ness.] The quality of being brusque or off-handed; bluntness. 1859Helps Friends in C.Ser. ii. II. vii. 137 Their sensitiveness is shocked by his brusqueness.1884Roe in Harper's Mag. June 92/1 Kindness, and..girlish brusqueness were..equally blended.