forthrightness

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forthrightness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Forthrightness \Forth"right`ness\, n.
     Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic]
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           Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. --Hawthorne.
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forthrightness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  forthrightness
      n 1: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude
           and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness,
           frankness, directness, forthrightness]