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The quality of being direct and straightforward
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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.