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Answer for the clue "The quality of being direct and straightforward ", 13 letters:
downrightness

Word definitions for downrightness in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Downright \Down"right`\, a. Plain; direct; forthright; unceremonious; blunt; positive; as, he spoke in his downright way. A man of plain, downright character. --Sir W. Scott. Open; artless; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism. Syn: honest-to-goodness. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness" [syn: straightforwardness ]

Usage examples of downrightness.

The society was very simple compared with the complex condition of ours, and yet it had more striking contrasts, and was a singular mixture of downrightness and artificiality.