Forthrightness \Forth"right`ness\, n.
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic]
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Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. --Hawthorne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
forthrightness
n : the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude
and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness, frankness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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