forthrightness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
forthrightness
    n 1: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude
         and speech [syn: {candor}, {candour}, {candidness},
         {frankness}, {directness}, {forthrightness}]
    
from The 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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