forthrightness n 1: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech [syn: {candor}, {candour}, {candidness}, {frankness}, {directness}, {forthrightness}]
Forthrightness \Forth"right`ness\, n. Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. [Archaic] [1913 Webster] Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]