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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Straightness; a straight course.
  2. n. Straightforwardness; openness; freedom from ambiguity.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The state or quality of being direct.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
  2. n. trueness of course toward a goal

Examples

  • “I think it sums up my personality; behind my directness is complexity.”

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  • “Your directness is bracing," CBI director Gale Bertram tells him, meaning "You're a complete waste of plasma and I wish you were landfill.”

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  • “But it had the Chamberlain directness and clarity.”

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  • “They consist in directness, in easily stirred susceptibility, in inflexible and lively spirits: they point to a superfluity of unexhausted gifts; and over the whole there extends a never-failing charm, a certain glamour of nobility.”

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  • “Her eyes now in their directness were the ice blue of Bill's, enchanting, and I felt reality slip a notch.”

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  • “Yes, I said it has to, and you get that kind of directness which is ...”

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  • “Her directness was a kind of disturbing truth serum, which quickly got to the core of the matter at hand.”

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  • “He recalled the directness of her speech in their first conversation and smiled at the naïveté of her estimate of himself.”

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  • “He was content with chronological order for his guide; his directness is the directness of the Chronicle History.”

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  • “Here, as in the first picture, the eyes looked forth with a curious, proud directness; but beneath the directness was a glint of humor, a flash of daring absent in the other face; the mouth smiled, seeming to anticipate life's secrets, the ungloved hand held the gun with a touch peculiarly caressing, peculiarly firm.”

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