apertness

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English

Etymology

From apert +‎ -ness.

Noun

apertness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Openness; frankness.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: , London: T. N for J Martyn printer to the R Society, , →OCLC, page 79:
      And in general, the Freedom or Apertneſs and vigour of pronuncing (as is particularly obſerved in the Bocca Romana) and giving ſomevvhat more of Aſpiration; And on the other ſide, the cloſeneſs and Mufling, and (as I may ſay) Lazineſs of ſpeaking […] render the ſound of their Speech conſiderably different, though they all ſhould uſe the ſame Alphabet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “apertness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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