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forthrightness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun forthrightness has 1 sense
- forthrightness(n = noun.attribute) candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness - the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech; Array is a kind of honestness, honesty
has particulars: ingenuousness
Derived form adjective forthright1
CIDE DICTIONARY
forthrightness, n.
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [1913 Webster]
"Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase."
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