| Obtuseness (n.) State or quality of being obtuse. Thesaurus Entries abatement, allayment, alleviation, anesthesia, anesthetizing, anxiety equivalent, appeasement, assuagement, callousness, deadening, deadness, depraved appetite, diminishment, diminution, dulling, dullness, ease, easement, easing, electronarcosis, impassibility, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, inconsiderateness, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, lessening, lulling, mitigation, mollification, narcosis, narcotization, neurasthenia, numbing, numbness, obtuseness, palliation, paresthesia, parorexia, pica, pins and needles, reduction, relief, remedy, salving, softening, soothing, speech abnormality, subduement, thick skin, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unperceptiveness |