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Indirectness

Indirectness \In`di*rect"ness\, n.

  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

  2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.
    --W. Montagu.

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indirectness

n. The condition of being indirect

WordNet
indirectness

n. having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal [ant: directness]

Usage examples of "indirectness".

My only -and rather pitiable - concession to the Principle of Indirectness had been to take the slow rather than the express line from one city to another.

Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.