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Offensive assertiveness
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forwardness
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Word definitions for forwardness in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her sharp disappointment was tinged with embarrassment at her own forwardness . ▪ His bubbling forwardness could collapse in an excess of emotionality.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. offensive assertiveness [syn: bumptiousness , cockiness , pushiness ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forwardness \For"ward*ness\, n. The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being forward.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "condition of being in advance," from forward + -ness . Meaning "presumptuousness" is from c.1600. Old English foreweardness meant "a beginning."
Usage examples of forwardness.
I mentioned a certain authour who disgusted me by his forwardness, and by shewing no deference to noblemen into whose company he was admitted.
I was scarce twelve years old before that part which she wanted so much to keep out of harm's way made me feel its impatience to be taken notice of, and come into play: al-ready had it put forth the signs of forwardness in the sprout of a soft down over it, which had often flatter'd, and I might also say, grown under my constant touch and visitation, so pleas'd was I with what I took to be a kind of title to womanhood, that state I pin'd to be entr'd of, for the pleasures I conceiv'd were annexed to it.